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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. – Georges Bernanos