It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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