The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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