One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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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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