black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG

Mad People Potential
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Life Photograph
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
SUSAN SONTAG

Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photography Touch
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photograph Time
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Ideas Photography Reality
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG

Sage Thinking Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Painting Photography Reality

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Susan Sontag Quotes