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Music is at once the most wond...

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

There is a great deal that eit...

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

A great writer has all 4 - but...

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

To make your life being a writ...

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Do stuff. be clenched, curious...

Do 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.

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The likelihood that your acts ...

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 Sontag 557 quotes

All struggle, all resistance i...

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The work of art itself is . . ...

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Everyone who is born holds dua...

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

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Despite the illusion of giving...

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

A photograph is both a pseudo-...

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

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The particular qualities and i...

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

All understanding begins with ...

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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Camp is art that proposes itse...

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

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One doesn't need to know the a...

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The most refined form of sexua...

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

To camp is a mode of seduction...

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Time may enhance what seems si...

Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.

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The idea of content in art is ...

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

When something is just bad, it...

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

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