The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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