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Make Quotes by Susan Sontag
- In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us…
- Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience…
- Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
- Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or…
- To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
- Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.
- Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
- The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the…
- A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to…
- Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the…
- As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
- It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it.…
- Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
- Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
- I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.†The things…
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