One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGTime 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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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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