The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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How boring just to be a body.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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