The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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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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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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