A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
SUSAN SONTAGIn ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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