Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Most of my reading is rereading.
Susan Sontag
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
Author
Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
Reading
Rereading
More quotes by Susan Sontag
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
Susan Sontag
To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.
Susan Sontag
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
Susan Sontag
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
Susan Sontag
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
Susan Sontag
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Susan Sontag
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
Susan Sontag
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
Susan Sontag
The really important thing is not to reject anything.
Susan Sontag
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
Susan Sontag
You can always be quoted.
Susan Sontag
We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?
Susan Sontag
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Susan Sontag
When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.
Susan Sontag
Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.
Susan Sontag
Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous
Susan Sontag
In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
Susan Sontag
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
Susan Sontag
What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag
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
