black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Life Photograph
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAG

Action Compassion Need
Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Consciousness One Liner
How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAG

Body Boring One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Inspirational Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Need Place
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
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

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Susan Sontag Quotes