Susan Sontag Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
Birthday: January 16
Death: December 28
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.
source: "Styles of Radical Will" by Susan Sontag, (p. 45), 1966.
topic: Art, Secular Society, Tasks, Autonomous
