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
liberty expansion possibility
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
art science fiction
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
photography photograph importance
To photograph is to confer importance.
writing doors pieces
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
real political disease
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
thinking world pay
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
nostalgic
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures
work ambition doe
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
writing literature audience
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
beauty time past
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
art revenge women
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
envy people attention
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
sex mind resources
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
artist example despise
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.