A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
Susan SontagIf there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.
Susan SontagEverything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.
Susan SontagDecline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
Susan SontagIn most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Susan Sontag