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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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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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