I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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