One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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