The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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