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

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

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Beautiful, Women
Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Women, Citizens
Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Beautiful, Eye
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.72, Macmillan

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Time, Past
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.69, Macmillan

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Beautiful, Overwhelmed
Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.14, Macmillan

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Susan Sontag
Beauty, Art, Intellectual

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