Quotes Susan Sontag

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thin...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but s...

It is not the position, but the disposition....

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fix...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense....

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence....

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist t...

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order t...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at ...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything....

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals....

Sanity is a cozy lie....

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about ...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech....

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the ...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified ...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants t...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his ...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's realit...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlle...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite a...

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the ques...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses....