No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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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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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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