How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGTo 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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 photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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