To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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