Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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