American - Author | January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag
LifeDetailsForeverSignificant
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
FearPoliticalRealAuthoritarian
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
PeopleRealityCameraEveryoneOwn
Sanity is a cozy lie.
LieCozySanity
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
LyingSelf-DefenseMeansElementary
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
TimeMomentPersonVulnerabilityOut
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
LifeManCreativeBoredomImportant
What we need is to use what we have.
NeedUse
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
ArtRevengeIntellectual
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
PhotographerPainterConstructs
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
LogicGuiltInnocenceVictimsTerms
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
HistoryManPossibilitiesExhaustion
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