850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

How boring just to be a body.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism