One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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