Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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