Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
understanding possibility ability
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
people television way
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
transformation minutes interest
The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute
voice people tunes
With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
views mourning celebrate
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.
dream art creating
The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.
world ifs has-beens
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
writing lakes decision
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
believe people brave
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
world literature translations
Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
photography world heroic
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
helping photograph doubtful
Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
understanding promise ease
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.
memories museums western
The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.