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Susan Sontag

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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Art Photography Touch
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

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