Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG -
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG -
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG -
It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAG -
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG