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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.

Susan Sontag

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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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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