72 Quotations by Susan Sontag
- 21. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
- 22. I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a pass ...
- 23. I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
- 24. I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
- 25. In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ...
- 26. In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
- 27. In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
- 28. In the final analysis, "style" is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylize ...
- 29. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men ...
- 30. Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
- 31. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle ...
- 32. It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter ...
- 33. It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
- 34. It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin ...
- 35. It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou ...
- 36. Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative ...
- 37. Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS cr ...
- 38. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to w ...
- 39. Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e ...
- 40. One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. ...
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