In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag Read Quote
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. Susan Sontag Read Quote
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Susan Sontag Read Quote
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph – only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Susan Sontag Read Quote
