To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Time 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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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