Susan Sontag Quotes - Page 10

• The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

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  Atrocities, Firsts, Surprise

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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• My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

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  Emotional, Needs, Passionate

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

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  Real, Reality

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.156, Macmillan

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• Gran parte del arte moderno se dedica a rebajar el umbral de lo terrible. Al acostumbrarnos a lo que antes no podíamos soportar ver u oír porque era demasiado chocante, doloroso o embarazoso, el arte cambia la moral.

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  Arte, Dolor, Osos

  Sobre la fotografía "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

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

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  Avid, Sight, Want

  Susan Sontag (1992). "El amante del volcán"

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• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

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  Perspective, Exotic, Association

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

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  Photography, Men, Vocation

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

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  Reading, Literature, Passports

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.266, Macmillan

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• We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

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  Arte, Escritura, Media

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• Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

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  Photography, Art, Mean

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• I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

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  Principles, Subliminal, Provinces

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.251, Macmillan

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• El descubrimiento del buen gusto del mal gusto puede ser muy liberador. El hombre que insiste en los placeres elevados y serios se está privando a sí mismo del placer; restringe continuamente lo que puede disfrutar; en el ejercicio constante de su buen gusto acabará por sacarse el precio del mercado, por así decirlo. Aquí el buen gusto se superpone al buen gusto como un hedonismo atrevido e ingenioso. Hace que el hombre de buen gusto esté alegre, cuando antes corría el riesgo de sentirse crónicamente frustrado. Es bueno para la digestión.

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  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

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  Taste, Faculty, Response

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

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  Fotografía, Arte, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.63, Macmillan

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• The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

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  Life, Spiritual, Athlete

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• Donde antes era el médico el que libraba el bellum contra morbum, la guerra contra la enfermedad, ahora es toda la sociedad.

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  Guerra, Salud, Médicos

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• Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

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  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• Es casi como si éste fuera el procedimiento fundamental de la sociedad moderna: duplicar y reciclar.

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  Fundamentals, Recycling, Modern

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

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  Country, Equality, Thinking

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• La sentida falta de fiabilidad de la experiencia humana provocada por la inhumana aceleración del cambio histórico ha llevado a toda mente moderna sensible al registro de algún tipo de náusea, de vértigo intelectual.

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  Change, Historical, Intellectual

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• American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

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  Anxiety, Energy, Floating

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• Para quienes no viven ni con consuelos religiosos sobre la muerte ni con un sentido de la muerte (o de cualquier otra cosa) como algo natural, la muerte es el misterio obsceno, la última afrenta, lo que no se puede controlar. Sólo se puede negar.

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  Muerte, Religión, Morir

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

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  Generations, Spirituality

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.81, Macmillan

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• His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

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  Hate, Elderly, Views

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• The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

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  Cancer, Medicine, Tuberculosis

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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