One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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