It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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