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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

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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

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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