Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.
Susan SontagIn the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.
Susan SontagA family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan SontagBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
Susan SontagIndustrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.
Susan Sontag