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A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The white race is the cancer of human history (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more (Susan Sontag Quotes)
With more people, there are more voices to tune out (Susan Sontag Quotes)
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures (Susan Sontag Quotes)
One of the author’s most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith (Susan Sontag Quotes)
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility (Susan Sontag Quotes)
‘Camp’ is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness (Susan Sontag Quotes)
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive (Susan Sontag Quotes)
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship - (Susan Sontag Quotes)
She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it’s the most repulsive thing in the world. One’s got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn’t as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power (Susan Sontag Quotes)
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one’s existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up (Susan Sontag Quotes)