Susan Sontag Quotes

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag

Evil, Blame, Illness

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Susan Sontag

Thought, Universal, Signs

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

Art, Experience, Real

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Susan Sontag

Liberty, Makes, Capitalism

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

Love, Famous, Strong

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Susan Sontag

Two, Problems, Ways

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag

Taste, Quotations, Surrealist

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

Importance, Photograph, Confer

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag

Alone, After, Able

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag

Women, Men, Beautiful

What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 28, 1933

Died: December 28, 2004

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