What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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