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The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Feminist
Film Critic
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
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The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
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Paintings invariably sum up photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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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.
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What we need is to use what we have.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
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All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.
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The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.
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I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
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Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.
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Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
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I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
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Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.
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When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.
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The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
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