Susan Sontag Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Susan Sontag

Understanding, World, Accepting

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

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

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