Aesthetic Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Rules of taste enforce structures of power.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetic Power Structure Taste
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire… — Aldous Huxley 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
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. — John Maus Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
