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Something Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
- Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They…
- The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is…
- A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly…
- Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
- A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or…
- 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 not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary…
- 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…
- Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
- Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
- Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
- 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…
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience…
- When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth…
- To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do…
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
- What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen