Susan Sontag

Citations

• “The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

• “Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comformable.”

• “What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.”

• “War is a man’s game—the killing machine has a gender, and it is male.”

• “And it is not necessarily better to be moved. Sentimentality, notoriously, is entirely compatible with a taste for brutality and worse.”