Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag

What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag

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

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag

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

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag