To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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