Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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