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 SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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 -
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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 -
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAG -
How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAG -
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG -
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG