Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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