Susan Sontag Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”

“Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.”

“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”

“Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.”

“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.”

“A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”

“Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

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

“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.”

“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.”