I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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