To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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