Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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