Persons Quotes by Susan Sontag

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

— Susan Sontag

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just…

— Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

— Susan Sontag

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

— Susan Sontag

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self…

— Susan Sontag

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent…

— Susan Sontag

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life…

— Susan Sontag

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

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the…

— Susan Sontag

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to…

— Susan Sontag

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects…

— Susan Sontag

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,…

— Susan Sontag

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and…

— Susan Sontag

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag