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
photograph instant maxims
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
two world extinction
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
truth lying party
I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.
cancer race civilization
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
two people female
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
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.