Susan Sontag Real Quotations
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- John Green
- C S Lewis
- Rajneesh
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Swami Vivekananda
- Dalai Lama
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Haruki Murakami
- Deepak Chopra
- Marianne Williamson
- Oscar Wilde
- Terry Pratchett
- Mark Twain
- Carl Jung
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Stephen King
- Ramana Maharshi
- Terence Mckenna
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Photography Quotes
Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.
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Hands Quotes
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 when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.
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Criticism Quotes
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
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Cutting Quotes
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.
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Book Quotes
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 is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.