The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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