Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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