It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGDo 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 SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG