Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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