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Famous Susan Sontag Quotes
“In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.”
“...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.”
“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”
“Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.”
“In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.”
“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.”
“What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”
“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
“No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.”
“Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.”
“Photographers are always imposing”
“A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.”
“Art is a form of consciousness.”