Susan Sontag Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

Topics

ArtExperienceCriticismNowAimUs

A few years ago, I realized I was decorating and designing my house around what was beautiful rather than practical for my family. When I made that realization, everything kind of clicked for me. I started being intentional about designing spaces with my kids in mind rather than picture-perfect rooms.

Joanna Gaines

FamilyBeautifulMindMeHouseKind

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Jennifer Granholm

GratitudeBestDayHonorLiving

I love fashion, but fashion is not my whole life.

John Rocha

LifeLoveFashionWholeI Love

Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less talked about.

Roger Ross Williams

DiversityWorldHollywoodThanks

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

Ron Reagan

BusinessSorryNothingSheOffice

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Mary Wesley

MarriagePersonKnowNeverGoing

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

WaterRiverYouPigParisOut

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

LoveWomenWordsLearnBackHard

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

Liza Minnelli

GoodSongThinkPresentEnoughKnow

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

Jason Momoa

ClimbingBum

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

Dimebag Darrell

MusicEndUnhappyBackNeverOpen

I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

Columbus Short

MoneyYouSometimesWantNeverTake

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