What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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