850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

Photography has become the quintessential art of affluent, wasteful, restless societies.

My love wants to incorporate her totally, to eat her. My love is selfish.

One of the author’s most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith...

A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me – if I needed convincing – that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into “style,” has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed – that is the modern view.

A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my own work and according to which I fall lamentably short.

I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy – it’s the most repulsive thing in the world. One’s got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.