Susan Sontag Quotes

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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

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

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

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

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

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

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

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

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

What we need is to use what we have.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

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

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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

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

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

Art is a form of consciousness.