I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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