One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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