What did Susan Sontag mean by: It’s almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling. Susan Sontag Writer · USA Copy
Creativity needs to be taken care of. It’s like a big baby that needs to be nourished. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Creativity, Importance, Nurturing, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art – like physical beauty in a person – is extremely perishable. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Art, Beauty, Ephemerality, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Empathy, Pain, Perspective, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Authenticity, Expression, Identity, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Destruction, Inquiry, Perspective, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
+ I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. Author, January 2, 2023December 25, 2024, Susan Sontag, Adventure, Exploration, Travel, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Action, Bodies, Enjoyment, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Madness, Society, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. Jean-Dominique Bauby Journalist · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
