Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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