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Needing to have reality confir...

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In 'life,' I don't want to be ...

In 'life,' I don't want to be reduced to my work. In 'work,' I don't want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Art is not consciousness per s...

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

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Norman Mailer in his writings ...

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In the twentieth century, the ...

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of 'spiritual' feelings and 'critical' discontent, is insanity.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The highest vocation of photog...

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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A photograph comes into being,...

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

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To collect photographs is to c...

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

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Nobody ever discovered uglines...

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The possession of a camera can...

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Images are more real than anyo...

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

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Reality has come to seem more ...

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

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Self-exposure is commendable i...

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

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Sight is a promiscuous sense. ...

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

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The two pioneering forces of m...

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

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Talking like touching. Writing...

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

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The taste for quotations (and ...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

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Ours is a society in which sec...

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

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Though collecting quotations c...

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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I write in spurts. I write whe...

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....