Susan Sontag Quotes
Quotes
Authors & Writers“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt.”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to 'care' more. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ It is not the position, but the disposition. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. ”
Susan SontagQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. ”
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