850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

To photograph is to confer importance.

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

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.