black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World
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

Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAG

Cameras Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
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
10 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 SONTAG

Change Direction People
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
SUSAN SONTAG

Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAG

Born Death Love One Liner

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Susan Sontag Quotes