The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGOur 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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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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