Susan Sontag Quotes About Art

• Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Real, Diseño

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

• Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

  Susan Sontag

  Art, People, Worry

• Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Passion, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan

• Para mí, la literatura es una vocación, incluso una especie de salvación. Me conecta con una empresa que tiene más de 2.000 años. ¿Qué nos queda del pasado? El arte y el pensamiento. Eso es lo que perdura. Eso es lo que sigue alimentando a la gente y le da una idea de algo mejor.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Pasado, Años

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

• In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Needs, Hermeneutics

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.157, Macmillan

• Art is a form of consciousness.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Consciousness, Form

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.42, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• La interpretación es la venganza del intelectual contra el arte.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Venganza, Mujeres

• All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Contemplation, Great Art

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.50, Macmillan

• Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Science, Fiction

  "Against Interpretation and Other Essays" by Susan Sontag, (p. 212), 1966.

• Las mejores emociones para escribir son la ira y el miedo. La emoción menos estimulante para escribir es la admiración. Es muy difícil escribir desde ella porque el sentimiento básico que acompaña a la admiración es un estado de ánimo pasivo y contemplativo.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Escritura, Sentimientos

• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Destiny

• El tiempo acaba situando a la mayoría de las fotografías, incluso a las más amateurs, en el nivel del arte.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Niveles, Fotografía

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.22, Macmillan

• Ahora es un momento nostálgico, y las fotografías promueven activamente la nostalgia. La fotografía es un arte elegíaco, un arte crepuscular. La mayoría de los temas fotografiados están, sólo por el hecho de ser fotografiados, tocados por el patetismo. ... Todas las fotografías son memento mori. Fotografiar es participar en la mortalidad, la vulnerabilidad, la mutabilidad de otra persona. Precisamente al cortar este momento y congelarlo, todas las fotografías atestiguan el implacable derretimiento del tiempo...

  Susan Sontag

  Fotografía, Arte, Crepúsculo

• En la mayoría de los casos modernos, la interpretación equivale a la negativa filistea a dejar en paz la obra de arte. El verdadero arte tiene la capacidad de ponernos nerviosos. Al reducir la obra de arte a su contenido y luego interpretarlo, se domestica la obra de arte. La interpretación hace que el arte sea manejable, conformable.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Real, Crítica

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

• Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Art, Intellectual

• Gran parte del arte moderno se dedica a rebajar el umbral de lo terrible. Al acostumbrarnos a lo que antes no podíamos soportar ver u oír porque era demasiado chocante, doloroso o embarazoso, el arte cambia la moral.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Dolor, Osos

  On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

• We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

  Susan Sontag

  Arte, Escritura, Media

• [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Issues, Political

• Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Knowing

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.146, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• A medida que la industrialización proporcionó usos sociales para las operaciones del fotógrafo, la reacción contra estos usos reforzó la autoconciencia de la fotografía como arte.

  Susan Sontag

  Fotografía, Arte, Ser

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.9, Macmillan

• Aunque la fotografía genera obras que pueden llamarse arte -requiere subjetividad, puede mentir, proporciona placer estético- la fotografía no es, para empezar, una forma de arte en absoluto. Al igual que el lenguaje, es un medio en el que se realizan obras de arte (entre otras cosas).

  Susan Sontag

  Fotografía, Arte, Mentira

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.130, Macmillan

• Las fotografías comercian simultáneamente con el prestigio del arte y la magia de lo real.

  Susan Sontag

  Fotografía, Arte, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.63, Macmillan

• As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

  Susan Sontag

  Vida, Arte, Pasión

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

• Art is seduction, not rape.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Seduction, Art Is

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Social, Force

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