All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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 SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGTo 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 SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG