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
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.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
matter population percent
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
inspirational photography today
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
art consciousness form
Art is a form of consciousness.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.