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.
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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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