All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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