Best Susan Sontag Sayings
- We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a… Both
- Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… Beauty
- I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… America
- What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. Death
- Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds. Available
- Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. Art
- That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to… Apocalypse
- Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. Agonize
- The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the… Blown
- No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. Granted
- AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all… Aids
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads… Anthology
- Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or… Acquire
- But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures Funny
- A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or… Distort
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the… Camera
- Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… Any
- Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. All
- Photographers are always imposing Funny
- Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary… Art
- Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and… Appear
- There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in… Body
- A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. All
- To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. Auto
- What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person… Doe
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