Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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