850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

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

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.