To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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