Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties
Susan SontagIn every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
Susan SontagYou can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
Susan SontagNever worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
Susan SontagOur 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 Sontag