Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGInstead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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