I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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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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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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