Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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