The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilit…

Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. ✨ Susan Sontag (1983). A Susan Sontag reader, Vintage
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. ✨ Susan Sontag (2008). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it … ▶
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.63, Macmillan

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