In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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How boring just to be a body.
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