The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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