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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”

Source: Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 7

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”

“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”

“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality… One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

Source: On Photography

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

Source: On Photography

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)

“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

"Melancholy Objects", p. 57
On Photography (1977)

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”

“Mad people = People who stand alone and burn.
I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.”

“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

Source: On Photography

“I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”