I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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