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
sadness wings sorrow
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
vitality attention eagerness
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
photography photographer preserves
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
art secular-society tasks
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.
writing tasks slavery
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
want
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
dream follow-your-dreams
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
inspirational life encouraging
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
use-it-or-lose-it use needs
What we need is to use what we have.
taken writing body
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
photography cousin often-is
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
truth lying opposites
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
space order happens
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
mean being-in-love ruins
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.