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.
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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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