Susan Sontag Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Pain, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

• No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Taken, People

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.7, Macmillan

• Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Pain, Bears

  On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

• 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

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