Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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