A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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