As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — 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
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. — 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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