If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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