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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag
Photography, Pain, Photographer
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Susan Sontag
Pain, Taken, People
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.7, Macmillan

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag
Art, Pain, Bears
On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Susan Sontag
Pain, Giving, Perfect
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.8, Macmillan

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