Susan Sontag Quotes About Quality
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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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The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.
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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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The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
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