In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter. Susan Sontag psychology matter history The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence. Susan Sontag four nuts people Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are Susan Sontag cameras drawing reality In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag photography america past When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures. Susan Sontag nostalgic AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag suicide sex thinking A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness. Susan Sontag education heart book Shouting has never made me understand anything. Susan Sontag shouting anger made The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. Susan Sontag males two people Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. Susan Sontag grandparent essentials museums To photograph is to confer importance. Susan Sontag importance photograph photography Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. Susan Sontag space happens order As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. Susan Sontag weakness different needs One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness. Susan Sontag despise artist example I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony. Susan Sontag agony passionate writing In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life. Susan Sontag want War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. Susan Sontag war long years I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. Susan Sontag encouraging inspirational life The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. Susan Sontag guilt inspiration writing 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. Susan Sontag passion photographer past
