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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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