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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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