Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.
不要擔心過度狂熱,我喜歡狂熱的人,狂熱的人創造偉大的藝術。― Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
照相機使我們每一個人成為他人真實生活的觀光客,最後也成為自己的。― Susan Sontag
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
真相總是被告知,而不被理解。如果沒有言說與書寫,將不會有關於任何事的任何真相。永遠就只是這樣。― Susan Sontag
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
謊言是最簡單的自我防衛。― Susan Sontag
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
今天,所有東西的存在都將終結在一張照片裡。
― Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
詮釋是知識份子對藝術的復仇。
― Susan Sontag
1980年桑塔格遇見了安妮·萊柏維茲,他是約翰藍儂被槍殺當天正在為他與小野洋子攝影的人像攝影師,她那一天的作品也成為了經典之作。桑塔格與萊柏維茲成為終生伴侶,在紐約一起生活,但分別住在各自可以從窗外看見對方的公寓的公寓,維持既獨立又親密的傳奇關係。
Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
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