"Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again."

-- Susan Sontag

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“Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.”
“Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?”
“Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.”
“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”
“I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.”
“Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.”
“I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.”
“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”

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