Best Susan Sontag Wisdom
- One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. All
- The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain… Attractiveness
- To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience… Behind
- Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our… Able
- The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. Art
- When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. Ambition
- Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. Camp
- Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. Been
- And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically,… Add
- Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,… Appropriate
- One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. Frivolous
- Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,… Aesthetic
- To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content. Attitude
- Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic… Agoraphobic
- Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. Accumulation
- To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Every Free
- Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. Develop
- The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature… Accomplice
- I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Actually Feel
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify… All
- Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Ideas
- The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Avoiding
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Beautiful
- Sanity is a cozy lie. Cozy
- Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Form
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