In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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