Susan Sontag Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Memories, Book

• To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Past, Years

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

• It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

  Susan Sontag

  Hurt, Knowing, Giving

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.264, Macmillan

• Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Lying

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.130, Macmillan

• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Insecure, Past, Space

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

• Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Giving, Mad

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.194, Macmillan

• Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Giving, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.8, Macmillan

• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

• The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan

• The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Giving, Purpose

• Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Giving, Understanding

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.100, Macmillan

• Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Giving, Way

• I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

  Susan Sontag

  Giving, Comfort, Aids

  Source: ctheory.net

• Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

  Susan Sontag

  Giving, World, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.5, Macmillan

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