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 SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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