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.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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