I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGDo stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG