Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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