The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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