70+ Susan Sontag Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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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Existence Science Space Time
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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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Art Photography Touch
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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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Care Intelligence People
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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