A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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