Ideas Quotes by Susan Sontag

The only interesting ideas are heresies

— Susan Sontag

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

— Susan Sontag

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

— Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

— Susan Sontag

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

— Susan Sontag

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

— Susan Sontag

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

— Susan Sontag

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and…

— Susan Sontag

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

— Susan Sontag

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it…

— Susan Sontag

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual…

— Susan Sontag

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years…

— Susan Sontag

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no…

— Susan Sontag

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar…

— Susan Sontag

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— Susan Sontag

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life…

— Susan Sontag

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert…

— Susan Sontag

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

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may…

— Susan Sontag