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.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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