The tide of undecipherable signatures of mutinous adolescen… - Susan Sontag

" "
The tide of undecipherable signatures of mutinous adolescents which has washed over and bitten into the facades of monuments and the surface of public vehicles in the city where I live: graffiti as an assertion of disrespect, yes, but most of all simply an assertion... the powerless saying: I'm here, too.

Susan Sontag

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Susan Rosenblatt

All quotes from Susan Sontag Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Susan Sontag:

Saul Bellow Roland Barthes Aldous Huxley Thomas Mann Samuel R. Delany

Additional quotes by Susan Sontag

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.

Necessary for Diddy the Disciplined to proceed systematically, or he'll get lost. There's a system of priorities here, as anywhere else, that Diddy might be wise to observe.

The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying.

The tide of undecipherable signatures of mutinous adolescents which has washed over and bitten into the facades of monuments and the surface of publi… - Susan Sontag

About Susan Sontag

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by Susan Sontag

Unlimited Quote Collections