The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan SontagThe truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
Susan SontagLike the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
Susan SontagIn the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag