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Art4 quotes
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. — Susan Sontag · 1973Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag · 1966Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it. — James Turrell · 2013Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. — Susan Sontag · 1966Books3 quotes
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury · 2010American politics2 quotes
It'll play in Peoria. — John Ehrlichman · 1969I would just like to say that no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence. And that I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for everything that's happened. And I hate Linda Tripp. — Monica Lewinsky · 1998Fear2 quotes
Courage is as contagious as fear. — Susan Sontag · 2003There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. — Ray Bradbury · 1950Perseverance2 quotes
I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. — Ray Bradbury · 2002The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so. — Ray Bradbury · 2002Photography2 quotes
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag · 2003Politics2 quotes
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. — Ray Bradbury · 1953Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? — Susan Sontag · 2001Power of art2 quotes
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. — Susan Sontag · 1973Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag · 1966Reading2 quotes
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993Stories2 quotes
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury · 1990Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag · 2003Taste2 quotes
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. — Susan Sontag · 1964AIDS1 quote
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims". — Susan Sontag · 1989Adversity1 quote
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. — Charles Bukowski · 1994Alcohol1 quote
When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment. — Charles Bukowski · 1981Artist and audience1 quote
Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it. — James Turrell · 2013Astrology1 quote
When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. — The 5th Dimension · 1967Beauty1 quote
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Camp1 quote
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964Celebrity1 quote
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. — Marilyn Monroe · 1962Coping1 quote
When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment. — Charles Bukowski · 1981Courage1 quote
Courage is as contagious as fear. — Susan Sontag · 2003Courage vs. fear1 quote
Courage is as contagious as fear. — Susan Sontag · 2003Culture1 quote
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993Egypt1 quote
There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury · 2010Environmental destruction1 quote
What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound,
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now. — The Doors · 1967Fighting for justice1 quote
What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound,
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now. — The Doors · 1967Getting started1 quote
Get up quickly-just switch on the white light of the will. — Susan Sontag · 1973Good taste1 quote
The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. — Susan Sontag · 1964Home1 quote
Home is wherever I'm with you. — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros · 2010