I don’t consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Susan Sontag · I, Etcetera (1978), Unguided Tour

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Susan Sontag · Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.

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“I don’t consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.”

“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”

“Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.”

“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.”