All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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