Best Susan Sontag Quotes
- The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is… Capitalize
- I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I… Agony
- The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is… All
- In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. Beauty
- ...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. Exclude
- A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly… Death
- While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… Cross
- Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… Acquisitive
- It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation… Activity
- To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… Appropriate
- Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Event
- Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… Aesthetic
- In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… Account
- Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. Art
- Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Disease
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… Another Person
- Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… Art
- Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… Americans
- In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. Directness
- The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV… American
- It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in… All
- Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what… Been
- Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. America
- The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Becoming
- Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… Art
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