Inspirational Quotes by Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing

— Susan Sontag

It is not the position, but the disposition.

— Susan Sontag

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

— Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.

— Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

— Susan Sontag

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

— Susan Sontag

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

— Susan Sontag

A good book is an education of the heart.

— Susan Sontag

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

— Susan Sontag

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

— Susan Sontag

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

— Susan Sontag

To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

— Susan Sontag

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

— Susan Sontag

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

— Susan Sontag

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

— Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they…

— Susan Sontag

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and…

— 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…

— Susan Sontag

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

— Susan Sontag

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

— Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.

— Susan Sontag

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

— Susan Sontag

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

— Susan Sontag

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

— Susan Sontag

Taste has no system and no proofs.

— Susan Sontag

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

— Susan Sontag

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

— Susan Sontag

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

— Susan Sontag