Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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