There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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