Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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