Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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