Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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