Reality Quotes by Susan Sontag

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

— Susan Sontag

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

— Susan Sontag

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone…

— Susan Sontag

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is…

— Susan Sontag

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an…

— Susan Sontag

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess…

— Susan Sontag

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— 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

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give…

— Susan Sontag

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology…

— Susan Sontag

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that…

— Susan Sontag

The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can…

— Susan Sontag

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of…

— Susan Sontag

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And…

— Susan Sontag