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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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 photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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