Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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