In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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