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Susan Sontag

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
To 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.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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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Change Direction People
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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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Art Photography Touch
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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Beautiful Deep Women
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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