The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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