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 SONTAGIn ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGDo stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGInstead 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 SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG