The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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