In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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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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How boring just to be a body.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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