Novel Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novel Photograph Photography Shock Shows
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really thought I… — Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
