Susan Sontag on artist
Susan Sontag69 quotes“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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Susan SontagSusan Sontag I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.
Bob RossBob Ross People might look at you a bit funny, but it’s okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
Bob RossBob Ross Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
Andre GideAndre Gide There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
Bob RossBob Ross When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
OshoOsho I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.
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Salvador DaliSalvador Dali I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.
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