If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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 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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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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