Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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