In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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