To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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