How boring just to be a body.
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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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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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