One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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