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
successful self feelings
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.
party reality self
The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.
selfishness messages want
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
art self people
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
self-confidence class lifestyle
This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
plato book self
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
lying mean self
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
lying simple self
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
art mean self
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.
writing self bigger
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
self edification actors
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.
self building process
the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
photography art self
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
sex self secret
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.