Susan Sontag best Famous Quotes – “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 best Family Quotes – “A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
Susan Sontag best Failure Quotes – “Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”
Susan Sontag best Equality Quotes – “I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”
Susan Sontag best Dreams Quotes – “I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.”
Susan Sontag best Beauty Quotes – “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
Susan Sontag best Art Quotes – “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Susan Sontag best Art Quotes – “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 best Alone Quotes – “Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”