I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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