Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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