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Susan Sontag

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
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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