Best Susan Sontag Qoutes
- The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Constructs
- The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth… Always Something
- A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Considered
- AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Aids
- Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Any
- Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. Catastrophe
- Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Attainment
- In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Analysis
- It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious… Altogether
- Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Book
- So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. Beautiful
- Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Attaches
- Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Bourgeois
- The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. All
- The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Abstract
- To photograph is to confer importance. Confer
- Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Able
- Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Alien
- I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious,… Alienation
- Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist… Artificial
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather… Aim
- Today everything exists to end in a photograph. End
- Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization… Al
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;… Appropriate
- Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is… All
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