Susan Sontag Quotes
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. 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. It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. It is not the position, but the disposition. Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Sanity is a cozy lie. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. 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. Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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