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Standards Quotes by Susan Sontag
- While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less…
- Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,…
- So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
More Standards Quotes
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him… — Irving Babbitt
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair,… — Amy Adams
- I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just… — Stephen Baldwin
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a… — Mario Batali
- Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the… — Bob Beauprez
- Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how… — Martha Beck
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher