What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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