Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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 SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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