It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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