Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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