Susan Sontag Quotes & Sayings

“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”

“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.”

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”