Susan Sontag cytaty
Susan Sontag
Data urodzenia: 16. Styczeń 1933
Data zgonu: 28. Grudzień 2004
Natępne imiona: സൂസൻ സൊൻടാഗ്, Susan Sontagová
Susan Sontag – amerykańska pisarka, eseistka, krytyczka społeczna i aktywistka praw człowieka. Jej książki przetłumaczono na ponad 30 języków.
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„Jesteśmy bardzo wrażliwi na okropności podawane w formie obrazów fotograficznych, wrażliwsi niż w realnym życiu.“
— Susan Sontag
Źródło: Monika Bokiniec, Barbara Forysiewicz, Jacek Michałowski, Natalia Mrozkowiak-Nastrożna, Grzegorz Nazaruk, Magdalena Sacha, Grażyna Świętochowska, Spotkania z kulturą. Podręcznik do wiedzy o kulturze dla liceum i technikum, wyd. Nowa Era, Warszawa 2012, ISBN 9788326707926.
„Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.“
— Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), "The Imagination of Disaster" from Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 212
„I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.“
— Susan Sontag
Context: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
„My library is an archive of longings.“
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
„To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.“
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
„Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.“
— Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), Context: Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility. And the means for practicing art have been radically extended.... Painters no longer feel themselves confined to canvas and paint, but employ hair, photographs, wax, sand, bicycle tires, their own toothbrushes and socks. Musicians have reached beyond the sounds of the traditional instruments to use tampered instruments and (usually on tape) synthetic sounds and industrial noises.
"One culture and the new sensibility", p. 296
„Americans have it right. Europeans are not in an evangelical — or a bellicose — mood.
Indeed, sometimes I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming: that what many people in my own country now hold against Germany, which wreaked such horrors on the world for nearly a century — the new "German problem," as it were — is that Germans are repelled by war; that much of German public opinion is now virtually … pacifist!“
— Susan Sontag
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
