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All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
– Susan Sontag

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  1. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. – Susan Sontag
  2. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
  3. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
  4. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  5. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  6. Depression is melancholy minus its charms. – Susan Sontag
  7. There is no art without contemplation. – Robert Henri
  8. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  9. My library is an archive of longings. – Susan Sontag
  10. Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.) – Susan Sontag
  11. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. – Susan Sontag
  12. Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. – Susan Sontag
  13. It is intolerable to have one’s sufferings twinned with anybody else’s. – Susan Sontag
  14. Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. – Susan Sontag
  15. With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence. – Susan Sontag
  16. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. – Susan Sontag
  17. I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces -˜intelligence. – Susan Sontag
  18. To the militant, identity is everything. – Susan Sontag
  19. The only interesting ideas are heresies – Susan Sontag
  20. Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
  21. One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. – Susan Sontag
  22. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag
  23. Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex. – Susan Sontag
  24. Rules of taste enforce structures of power. – Susan Sontag
  25. With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven. – Susan Sontag
  26. Can I love someone…and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. – Susan Sontag
  27. It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices. – Susan Sontag
  28. How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! – Susan Sontag
  29. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w – Susan Sontag
  30. But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. – Susan Sontag
  31. If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… – Susan Sontag
  32. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. – Susan Sontag
  33. Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.) – Susan Sontag
  34. One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. – Susan Sontag
  35. To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag
  36. It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. – Susan Sontag
  37. My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. – Susan Sontag
  38. I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. – Susan Sontag
  39. The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication – Susan Sontag
  40. I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. – Susan Sontag

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