Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from…

Susan Sontag
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Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.82, Macmillan
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.50, Macmillan
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden ar … ▶
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. ✨ The Pornographic Imagination (1967)

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

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