black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAG

Beautiful Deep Women
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand
Do 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 SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG

Funny Inspirational Travel
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Easy Endurance

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Susan Sontag Quotes