Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
SUSAN SONTAGI’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAG10 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.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
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