Top 61 Quotes by Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

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

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.