Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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