My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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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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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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