The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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