Imagination Quote by Susan Sontag

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual…

— Anonymous

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

— Susan Sontag

Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.

— Volkmar Sigusch

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured).…

— Roland Barthes

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention…

— Herbert Read

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

— Leonard Rossiter

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect;…

— Aldous Huxley

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps…

— Potter Stewart

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

— Audre Lorde

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy…

— Susan Sontag

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few…

— Robertson Davies