The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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