The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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