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.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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