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Form Quotes by Susan Sontag
- One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic…
- Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art…
- Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
- Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate…
- Art is a form of consciousness.
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
- The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
- As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself…
- The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain…
- Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
- Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
- Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens…
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