In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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