I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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