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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person I create myself.
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The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.
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Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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