The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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