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Susan Sontag


American
January 16, 1933
Author
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.


Susan Sontag
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.


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


Susan Sontag
Tags: World Only Two
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Susan Sontag
Tags: Us Makes Liberty
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag
Tags: Love World Terms
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan Sontag
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag
Tags: Life Our Most
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
Tags: Famous Like Love
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Susan Sontag
Tags: Been Than World
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag
Tags: Alone Been Every
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
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
Tags: Time Out Take
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.
Susan Sontag
Tags: You Will Some