One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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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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