The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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