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.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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