Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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