Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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