The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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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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A 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.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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How boring just to be a body.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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