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Much Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
- Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear…
- Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or…
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
- Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -…
- Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.
- If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that…
- Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
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