The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Photographers are always imposing.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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