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
moving memorable looks
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.
art needs hermeneutics
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
art worry people
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
book reading bigs
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
feelings asks
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
sex self secret
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
strong feelings creation
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
pain taken people
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
writing agony passionate
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.
tired persons
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
artist hands eras
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
art past years
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
creativity men boredom
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
thinking sage paraphrase
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.