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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

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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