Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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