Susan Sontag
American · 1933–2004
American writer, critic, and political activist known for her essays on modern culture, photography, and illness.
Wikipedia ↗“In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.”
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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”
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“The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads.”
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“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”
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“Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.”
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“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves.”
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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
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“In America, the weights of suffering are always given to somebody else.”
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“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
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“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
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“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”
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