I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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