Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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