Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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