The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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