Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art
Susan Sontag quote What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan Sontag quote What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag quote Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
Susan Sontag quote 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 quote The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Susan Sontag quote The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag quote The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Susan Sontag quote Biography
American writer
