It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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