The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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