#ra

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

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

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#american #committed #continue #country #equality

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#bad #interesting #less #mysterious #ones

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#degrades #feared #most #such #suffering

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#anyway #by the time #common #i #me

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love