Author: Susan Sontag

Quotes

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.

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

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

- Susan Sontag

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

- Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

- Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

- Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

- Susan Sontag

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

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

- Susan Sontag

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

- Susan Sontag

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.

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

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