...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures Susan Sontag nostalgic I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Susan Sontag follow-your-dreamsdream To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. Susan Sontag slaverytaskswriting Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds. Susan Sontag atheismmindsex Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Susan Sontag worrypeopleart The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed. Susan Sontag ethical-issuesmass-cultureminorities Passion paralyzes good taste. Susan Sontag good-tastepassiontaste I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag envyattentionpeople All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. Susan Sontag great-artcontemplationart The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. Susan Sontag communitychangeinspirational I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting. Susan Sontag solitudewaitingwant A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all. Susan Sontag propagandaintentionart Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures Susan Sontag circulatory-systemliteratureworld Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. Susan Sontag tastepeopleideas What we need is to use what we have. Susan Sontag use-it-or-lose-ituseneeds If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. Susan Sontag detachmentcomedytragedy The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past. Susan Sontag ignoredsexpast Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards. Susan Sontag axesordinaryart One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. Susan Sontag frivolousseriousplay the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself. Susan Sontag buildingprocessself
