Susan Sontag Quotes, Thoughts and images

Art is a form of consciousness.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

What we need is to use what we have.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.