Quotes by Sontag, Susan

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

Taste has no system and no proofs. >>

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which huma >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. >>

Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. >>

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a s >>

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Sontag, Susan