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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can’t force it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph (Susan Sontag Quotes)
So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication (Susan Sontag Quotes)
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 Sontag Quotes)
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret (Susan Sontag Quotes)
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community (Susan Sontag Quotes)
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction (Susan Sontag Quotes)