A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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 funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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