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.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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