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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
— Susan Sontag
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology ...
— Susan Sontag
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.
— Susan Sontag
The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.
— Susan Sontag
The place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.
— Susan Sontag
Most of my reading is rereading.
— Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
— Susan Sontag
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
— Susan Sontag
The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.
— Susan Sontag
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
— Susan Sontag
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
— Susan Sontag
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
— Susan Sontag
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
— Susan Sontag
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
— Susan Sontag
War has been the norm and peace the exception
— Susan Sontag
With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
— Susan Sontag
a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,
— Susan Sontag
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
— Susan Sontag
Taste has no system and no proofs.
— Susan Sontag
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
— Susan Sontag
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
— Susan Sontag
Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.
— Susan Sontag
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
— Susan Sontag
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
— Susan Sontag
But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.
— Susan Sontag
Art is a form of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
The really important thing is not to reject anything.
— Susan Sontag
Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.
— Susan Sontag
Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.
— Susan Sontag
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
— Susan Sontag
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
— Susan Sontag
Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.
— Susan Sontag
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement.
— Susan Sontag
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
— Susan Sontag
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
— Susan Sontag
Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.
— Susan Sontag
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
— Susan Sontag
Courage is morally neutral.
— Susan Sontag
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
— Susan Sontag
Writing is a mysterious activity.
— Susan Sontag
Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.
— Susan Sontag
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
— Susan Sontag
Literature usually begets literature.
— Susan Sontag
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
— Susan Sontag
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...
— Susan Sontag
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
— Susan Sontag
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
— Susan Sontag
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
— Susan Sontag
The function of writing is to explode one's subject - transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations).
— Susan Sontag
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
— Susan Sontag
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
— Susan Sontag
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
— Susan Sontag
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
If one could amputate part of one's consciousness ...
— Susan Sontag
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
— Susan Sontag
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
— Susan Sontag
Whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
— Susan Sontag
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn.I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same. — Susan Sontag
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
— Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
— Susan Sontag
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
— Susan Sontag
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag
My library is an archive of longings.
— Susan Sontag
The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful
— Susan Sontag
Try not to live in a linguistic slum.
— Susan Sontag
The process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
— Susan Sontag
