One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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