Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.
Susan SontagThe young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
Susan SontagIt's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
Susan Sontag