Susan Sontag Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Cynical

  Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

• All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

  Susan Sontag

  Understanding, World, Accepting

• All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

  Susan Sontag

  Understanding, Possibility, Ability

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.24, Macmillan

• Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

  Susan Sontag

  Understanding, Promise, Ease

• We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

  Susan Sontag

  Choices, Understanding, Facts

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.259, Macmillan

• 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

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