All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A 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.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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