I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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