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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAG

Action Compassion Need
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG

Blame Evil Identify Need
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Painting Photography Reality
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

Extinction Problem World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG

Funny Inspirational Travel
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ideas Poet Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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