What did Susan Sontag mean by: Unfortunately, moral beauty in art – like physical beauty in a person – is extremely perishable. Susan Sontag Writer · USA Copy
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Bravery, Courage, Fearlessness, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
I’m interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Fiction, Narrative, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Emptiness, Interpretation, Power, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Memory, Photography, Travel, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Communication, Explanation, Humanity, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Compassion, Empathy, Humanity, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Balance, Boundaries, Identity, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Susan Sontag, Fulfillment, self-care, Solitude, 0 Susan Sontag Writer · USA
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
