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Letter "S" » Susan Sontag Quotes
«Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
register, registered, registering, registers, sexuality, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, The Register
«Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.»
«To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
freezing, melt, mortality, mutability, participate, photographs, relentless, sliced, slices, slicing, testifies, testify, testifying, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
«The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Boredom,
Creativity
| Keywords:
boredom, controlled, directed, purposes
«Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artificial, comment, commented, Commenting, Force It, reflect, touched
«What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.»
«Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.»
«What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine»
«Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
deplete, depleted, depleting, impoverish, impoverishing, interpret, interpretation, meanings, revenge, Revenge of, set up
«It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Movies,
Travel
| Keywords:
assuage, assuaged, assuages, assuaging, camera, disorientation, exacerbate, exacerbated, pictures, positively, soothes, soothing, unnatural
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