Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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