In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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