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. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.Susan Sontag
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What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Susan Sontag
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
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