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Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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