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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: January 28, 1933 Date of Death: December 28, 2004 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Susan Sontag Related Authors: Zig Ziglar Tony Robbins Mark Twain Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Anais Nin Brian Tracy Joseph Campbell Leo Buscaglia |
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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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Susan Sontag 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 The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Susan Sontag The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Susan Sontag The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Susan Sontag 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 The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. Susan Sontag The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Susan Sontag The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag 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 about anything. There would only be what is. Susan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag To photograph is to confer importance. Susan Sontag 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 to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Susan Sontag Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag |
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