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Susan Sontag

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Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.


— Susan Sontag


#moments #photography #life

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.


— Susan Sontag


#life #love #inspirational

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.


— Susan Sontag


#dreams

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.


— Susan Sontag


#culture #art

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.


— Susan Sontag


#life #love #thoughts #inspirational

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.


— Susan Sontag


#life #work #life

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.


— Susan Sontag


#time #art

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!


— Susan Sontag


#pretense #self-love #selflessness #love

The only interesting ideas are heresies


— Susan Sontag


#culture #art

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.


— Susan Sontag


#art #culture #art






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"
Ellen Lee accused Sontag of plagiarism when Lee discovered at least twelve passages in In America that were similar to or copied from passages in four other books about Helena Modjeska without attribution. The last two novels were set in the past which Sontag said gave her greater freedom to write in the polyphonic voice. She elevated Camp to the status of recognition with her widely-read 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp' which accepted Art as including common absurd and burlesque themes.

". Sontag was active in writing and speaking about or travelling to areas of conflict including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" Sontag became an international cultural and intellectual celebrity.

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