There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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 -
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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 -
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 -
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG