One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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