In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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