Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatmen >>

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain laps >>

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Art has an enemy called ignorance. >>

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its >>

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be diffe >>

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan