Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. 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.
Susan SontagI don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
Susan SontagThe public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
Susan SontagBut I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.
Susan SontagOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
Susan Sontag