Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furn >>

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge betwee >>

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It >>

Quotations about Morality

The higher the building the lower the morals. >>

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and c >>

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort o >>

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Sontag, Susan