Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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 possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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