Susan Sontag Quotes
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Photographers are always imposing.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
Susan SontagSusan 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 SontagSusan Sontag Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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