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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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