I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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