There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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