#eve

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#eventually #everyone #makes #other #own

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. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#idea #interested #someone #writer

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #fail #honor #i #prefer

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ↗

— Sophocles

#bad #bad man #day #discern #just

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #deception #even #profit #sweet