Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, professor, literary icon, and political activist.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Use this quote
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Use this quote
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Use this quote
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Use this quote
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. Use this quote
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Use this quote
