Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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