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.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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