The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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