Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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