In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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