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.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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