Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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