Susan Sontag Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

• It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

  Susan Sontag

  Memories, Past, Touching

• Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Lying

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

• The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

  Susan Sontag

  Sex, Pleasure, Form

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

• The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Giving, Purpose

• The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Intelligent, Moral

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.214, Macmillan

• There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

  Susan Sontag

  Elements, Pleasure, Position

• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

• Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Book, Waiting

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