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To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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Susan Rosenblatt
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
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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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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are
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Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
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art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
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People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
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One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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