Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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