Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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More Susan Sontag Quotes
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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 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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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