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.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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