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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality

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