It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...