Susan Sontag Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”

“'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.”

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

“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”

“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”

“Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.”

“Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.”

“To photograph is to confer importance.”

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”

“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”