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
thinking sage paraphrase
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
art passion perfect
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
intelligent people care
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
women reality people
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
writing ideas
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
inspirational funny travel
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
interesting history answers
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
education book heart
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
barbarians persons
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
reality ideas way
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
kind wanted
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
photography photograph
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
love mysterious relation
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
dream memories book
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.