“Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics”

“I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says, be passionate, wake up.”

“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of is possibilities.”

“It is not the position, but the disposition.”

“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.”

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others”

“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.”

“In the final analysis, style is art. and art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation”
SUSAN SONTAG