Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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