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Reality Quotes by Susan Sontag
- That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to…
- 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…
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
- 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…
- Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and…
- Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
- Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
- We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,…
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are…
- Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
- 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…
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov