I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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