Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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