To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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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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