To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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