It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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