What did Susan Sontag mean by: A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. Susan Sontag Writer · USA Copy
It’s almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Duplication, Recycling, Society, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Focus, Thinking, Violence, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Action, Compassion, Emotion, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Art, Photography, Time, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Communication, Explanation, Humanity, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Change, Disillusionment, Realism, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Desire, Inclusivity, Writing, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
…what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Creativity, Intelligence, Revision, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
