There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level 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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