All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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.
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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