Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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