I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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