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.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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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.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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