Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — 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 question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. — 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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