The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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