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Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader’s own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person (Susan Sontag Quotes)
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism (Susan Sontag Quotes)
It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country (Susan Sontag Quotes)
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible. To see a new beauty in what is vanishing (Susan Sontag Quotes)
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt (Susan Sontag Quotes)
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we’d rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down (Susan Sontag Quotes)
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don’t perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism (Susan Sontag Quotes)
When something is just bad, it’s often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn’t attempted to do anything really outlandish (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It’s rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos (Susan Sontag Quotes)
When we’re afraid we shoot. But when we’re nostalgic we take pictures (Susan Sontag Quotes)