850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I’m fond of flowers.

Whatever goal is set for art eventually proves restrictive, matched against the widest goals of consciousness.

Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of “character.

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.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.