Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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