The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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