In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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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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