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Susan Sontag - From the Art category:
Art is seduction, not rape. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Art category:
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.' (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Artists category:
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Boredom category:
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Eroticism category:
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)
Susan Sontag - From the Eroticism category:
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)
Susan Sontag - From the Fantasy category:
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. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Ideas category:
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Intellect category:
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Interpretation category:
Interpretation in art is the revenge of the intellect. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Life category:
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Mediocrity category:
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. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Morality category:
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Observation category:
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Perfection category:
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.' (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Photography category:
A photograph is not only an image as a painting is an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Photography category:
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Photography category:
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Play category:
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Possibilities category:
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Standards category:
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different – a supplementary – set of standards. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Strategy category:
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Style category:
Style is everything. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Style category:
To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Surrealism category:
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Surrealism category:
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Surrealism category:
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Taste category:
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free – as opposed to rote – human response. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Taste category:
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. (Susan Sontag)
Susan Sontag - From the Writing category:
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification. (Susan Sontag)
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