--- title: "19 Persons Quotes By Susan Sontag" description: "19 Persons quotes by Susan Sontag. Plus more from Susan Sontag and more Persons sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_1131552.jpg" --- > [Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is-2/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_1131552.jpg) > [In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-myself-more-openly-than-i-could/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/susan-sontag-332_journal_in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-mys_3123145.jpg) > [It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-hurts-to-love-it-s-like-giving-yourself-to-be-flayed-and-knowing/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/susan-sontag-332_giving_it-hurts-to-love-it-s-like-giving-yourse_213454.jpg) > [Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/being-in-love-means-being-willing-to-ruin-yourself-for-the-other/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/susan-sontag-332_being-in-love_being-in-love-means-being-willing-to-rui_2896656.jpg) > [Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event-or-a-person-into-something/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/733/susan-sontag-332_events_photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event_55688.jpg) > [Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/taste-tends-to-develop-very-unevenly-it-s-rare-that-the-same-person/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/susan-sontag-332_good-taste_taste-tends-to-develop-very-unevenly-it_351281.jpg) > [In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/in-america-the-photographer-is-not-simply-the-person-who-records-the/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/993/susan-sontag-332_america_in-america-the-photographer-is-not-simpl_2851148.jpg) > [ \[O\]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/o-ne-person-s-barbarian-is-another-person-s-just-doing-what-everybody/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d24/susan-sontag-332_barbarians_o-ne-person-s-barbarian-is-another-perso_2038508.jpg) > [Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e01/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_3506.jpg) > [The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-love-of-the-famous-like-all-strong-passions-is-quite-abstract-its/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/susan-sontag-332_abstract_the-love-of-the-famous-like-all-strong-p_2364787.jpg) > [...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-be-a-poet-requires-a-mythology-of-the-self-the-self-described-is/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf4/susan-sontag-332_identity_to-be-a-poet-requires-a-mythology-of-the_2677537.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/persons-who-merely-have-a-life-customarily-move-in-a-dense-fluid-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/susan-sontag-332_able_persons-who-merely-have-a-life-customari_2865281.jpg) > [What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/what-pornographic-literature-does-is-precisely-to-drive-a-wedge/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd6/susan-sontag-332_books_what-pornographic-literature-does-is-pre_764161.jpg) > [If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/if-within-the-last-century-art-conceived-as-an-autonomous-activity/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/susan-sontag-332_activity_if-within-the-last-century-art-conceived_2575163.jpg) > [It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-is-a-nostalgic-time-right-now-and-photographs-actively-promote/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/susan-sontag-332_art_it-is-a-nostalgic-time-right-now-and-pho_2918661.jpg) > [Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/tamed-as-it-may-be-sexuality-remains-one-of-the-demonic-forces-in/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/susan-sontag-332_arbitrary_tamed-as-it-may-be-sexuality-remains-one_2732932.jpg) > [Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/superficial-to-understand-the-journal-as-just-a-receptable-for-one-s/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/603/susan-sontag-332_alas_superficial-to-understand-the-journal-as_430783.jpg) > [I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-have-to-come-out-of-the-closet-of-the-third-person-and-speak-in-a/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c9/susan-sontag-332_closets_i-have-to-come-out-of-the-closet-of-the_1440896.jpg) > [I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-discovered-that-i-am-tired-of-being-a-person-not-just-tired-of/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b65/susan-sontag-332_person_i-discovered-that-i-am-tired-of-being-a_3096171.jpg) ## Other authors on Persons ## More by Susan Sontag > [the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-appetite-for-thinking-must-be-regulated-as-all-sensible-people/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [We are ruled by quotations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/we-are-ruled-by-quotations/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/like-the-collector-the-photographer-is-animated-by-a-passion-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [ Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… \[The anthropologist\] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/anthropology-has-always-struggled-with-an-intense-fascinated/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/why-not-eliminate-schooling-between-age-12-16-it-s-biologically/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-people-is-to-violate-them-by-seeing-them-as-they-never/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/one-set-of-messages-of-the-society-we-live-in-is-consume-grow-do-what/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/currently-intellectuals-in-western-europe-and-north-america-are/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/with-the-modern-diseases-once-tb-now-cancer-the-romantic-idea-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/as-objects-of-contemplation-images-of-the-atrocious-can-answer-to/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-creative-phase-of-an-idea-coincides-with-the-period-during-which/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event-or-a-person-into-something/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-m-not-interested-in-giving-aid-and-comfort-to-the-neo-conservatives/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-feminist-movement-has-been-important-to-me-because-it-s-made-me/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/persons/susan-sontag/#itemlist", "name": "19 Persons Quotes By Susan Sontag", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Susan Sontag" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_1131552.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_1131552.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/susan-sontag-332_art_unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-p_1131552.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.” — Susan Sontag", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Susan Sontag" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-myself-more-openly-than-i-could/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/susan-sontag-332_journal_in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-mys_3123145.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/susan-sontag-332_journal_in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-mys_3123145.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/susan-sontag-332_journal_in-the-journal-i-do-not-just-express-mys_3123145.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.” — Susan Sontag", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It hurts to love. 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