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So successful has been the ca...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The camera makes everyone a t...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Victims suggest innocence. An...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Depression is melancholy minu...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Lying is an elementary means ...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Mallarme said that everything...

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Surrealism is a bourgeois dis...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

I was not looking for my drea...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The past itself, as historica...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The aim of all commentary on ...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

I don't want to express alien...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

For those who live neither wi...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

'Camp' is a vision of the wor...

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Societies need to have one il...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Ambition, if it feeds at all,...

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

As photographs give people an...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Books are funny little portab...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

I envy paranoids; they actual...

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Authoritarian political ideol...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Existence is no more than the...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

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