Susan Sontag

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."

"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."

"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."

"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons."

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."