Beauty Quotes by Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

— Susan Sontag

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

“With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”

— Susan Sontag

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

— Susan Sontag

“For Valéry, the nature of beauty is that it cannot be defined; beauty is precisely “the ineffable.”

— Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see…

— Susan Sontag

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

— Susan Sontag

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to…

— Susan Sontag

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty,…

— Susan Sontag

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or…

— Susan Sontag

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

— Susan Sontag

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

— Susan Sontag

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic…

— Susan Sontag

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies…

— Susan Sontag

“What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our…

— Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as…

— Susan Sontag

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an…

— Susan Sontag

“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of…

— Susan Sontag

In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical…

— Susan Sontag