“All governments lie,
but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials
smoke the same hashish they give out.” – I.F. Stone
from “In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967” (1967), p. 317
Dhead XXXVIII
(1995)
Arcylic and computer collage on canvas
25 x 20 cm
Self Portrait (Mustique)(2002)
Lithograph on Fabriano paper
24 x 19 cm
“My entire career, I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter. The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety, all of the high points of one’s life.” – David Bowie
INTERVIEWER
Do you think much about the audience for your books?
SONTAG
Don’t dare. Don’t want to. But, anyway, I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
Lack of political will = Corruption
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
~Susan Sontag
(9/10/1964)
“Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.”
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
– Jonathan Swift
“Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err” -Alexander Pope
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
–Jonathan Swift