World Quotes by Susan Sontag

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

— Susan Sontag

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

— Susan Sontag

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

— Susan Sontag

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

— Susan Sontag

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

— Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

— 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

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly…

— Susan Sontag

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of…

— Susan Sontag

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

— Susan Sontag

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

— Susan Sontag

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

— Susan Sontag

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what…

— Susan Sontag

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet…

— Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what…

— Susan Sontag

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world…

— Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To…

— Susan Sontag

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an…

— Susan Sontag

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching…

— Susan Sontag

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an…

— Susan Sontag

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with…

— Susan Sontag

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.…

— Susan Sontag

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of…

— Susan Sontag

To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the…

— Susan Sontag

Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch…

— Susan Sontag

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently…

— Susan Sontag

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is…

— Susan Sontag

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

— Susan Sontag

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a…

— Susan Sontag

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the…

— Susan Sontag

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in…

— Susan Sontag

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available…

— Susan Sontag

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like…

— Susan Sontag

“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology…

— 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

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a…

— Susan Sontag

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more…

— Susan Sontag