Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government…

Susan Sontag
253 citations
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. ✨ What's Happening in America (1966)
Humanity Politics
12

More Author Quotes

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On … ▶
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p … ▶
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.50, Macmillan
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting. ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.305, Macmillan

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes