Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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