Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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