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.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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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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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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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 paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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