One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGI’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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 my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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