Susan Sontag Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

  Susan Sontag

  Hands, Way, Moral

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.114, Macmillan

• Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Doubt, Photograph, Evidence

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

• Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

  Susan Sontag

  Justice, Diversity, Important

• Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Ongoing, Pieces

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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