It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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