To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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