What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
Susan SontagMuch of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Susan SontagThe work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
Susan Sontag'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag