“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. With him I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
