Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image ““The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful”” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes, when things get really bad, I just remind myself that life is a boot camp. We all start out soft, weak. And then… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
“The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren’t given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“Great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. “What’s” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Trying to define Camp is like attempting to sit in the corner of a circular room. It can’t be done, which only adds to… — Charles Hatfield Copy Share Image
“We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much… — Jen Naumann 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
