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.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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