The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Instead 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.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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How boring just to be a body.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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