Susan Sontag Quotes

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag

Envy, Attention, Actually

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

Time, Person, Moment

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Intelligence, Ideas, Taste

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag

Life, Important, Creative

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Susan Sontag

Silence, Speech, Remains

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag

Reality, Everyone, Makes

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

Failure, Wrong, Judgment

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag

Truth, Lie, May

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag

Women, Men, Beautiful

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

Depression, Melancholy, Animation

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag

Family, Often, Photograph

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag

Questions, Destroy, Answers

Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag

Lie, Sanity, Cozy

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan Sontag

Travel, Strategy, Becomes

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag

Past, Help, Give

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag

Funny, Thought, Books

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag

Keep, Alive, Rules

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan Sontag

Life, Dreams, Rather

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag

Past, Person, America

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

Love, Vision, Style

It is not the position, but the disposition.
Susan Sontag

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Susan Sontag

Means, Lying, Elementary

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Susan Sontag

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Susan Sontag

History, Exhaustion, Becoming

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 28, 1933

Died: December 28, 2004

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