Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

- Susan Sontag

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it…

- Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

- Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

- Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

- Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

- Susan Sontag

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

- Susan Sontag

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

- Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

- Susan Sontag