Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag criticentireentitle Change image and share on social
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. Susan Sontag bookfunnypiece Change image and share on social
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Susan Sontag governguiltinexorable Change image and share on social
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag bourgeoisdisaffectionmilitant Change image and share on social
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag freezemeltmoment share on social
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag activelylunaticmad Change image and share on social
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag incongruousjuxtapositionquotation Change image and share on social
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag accumulatephotographstrategy Change image and share on social
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Susan Sontag abstractfamousindependent Change image and share on social
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. Susan Sontag aimanalogyart share on social