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 SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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