850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot – whatever the artist’s personal intention – advocate anything at all.

If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness...

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

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It’s rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable – that is, unforgettable.

All struggle, all resistance is – must be – concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.