Best Susan Sontag Quotations
- To travel is to shop. Inspirational
- Art is a form of consciousness. Art
- The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. Break
- My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. Idea
- A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. Attention
- To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices… Amusement
- To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded,… Angle
- Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage. Courage
- Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. Arbitrary
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to… Art
- Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Ability
- Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. Along
- The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the… According
- Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context… According
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved… Actually Experience
- Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. Doubt
- As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. Art
- Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense… Animated
- The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. Each
- The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie… Atrocities
- I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. Actively
- I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. Audience
- A good book is an education of the heart. Book
- To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. Artist
- Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to… All
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