Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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