Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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