Susan Sontag Quotes about Giving

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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