Quotes by Sontag, Susan

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

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, >>

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has bec >>

Quotations about Taste

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth >>

Taste has no system and no proofs. >>

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. >>

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Sontag, Susan