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
photography world photograph
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
vision style world
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
dream witty world
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.
art world commentary
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
world pay attention
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
reality pieces world
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
giving world photograph
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
dumb world feels
I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.
art world way
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
world-suffering suffering degrade
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
strong world response
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
government world today
The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
world ifs has-beens
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
world literature translations
Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures