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.
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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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 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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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