The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new p… - Susan Sontag

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.

The problem isn’t that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs.