Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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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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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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