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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
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I love to read the way people love to watch television.
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Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
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The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
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I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.
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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 impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
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An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
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You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality the real object is often experienced as a letdown.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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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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