There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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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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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.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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