Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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