Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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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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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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