Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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