I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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 urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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