Onur Yasar > Onur's Quotes

“Bu kiliseler, bu çan, bu yalan niçin? Bütün bunların tek nedeni var: Birbirimizden, öfkeyle birbirine küfreden şu arabacılar gibi nefret ettiğimizi gizlemek için.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Art Nouveau objects, typically, convert one thing into something else: the lighting fixtures in the form of flowering plants, the living room which is really a grotto. A remarkable example: the Paris Métro entrances designed by Hector Guimard in the late 1890s in the shape of cast-iron orchid stalks.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Gaudi's lurid and beautiful buildings in Barcelona are Camp not only because of their style but because they reveal — most notably in the Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia — the ambition on the part of one man to do what it takes a generation, a whole culture to accomplish.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Kendi ailemin eski serveti dahil, her zenginliğin arkasında ya bir haksızlık, ya bir sömürü, ya bir hırsızlık olabileceği konusunda kuşkularım vardır hep.”
― Mîna Urgan, Bir Dinozorun Anıları

“Evin kalbi derler mutfağa, herhalde erkekler demiş olacak. Oysaki nasıl da bir meşru müdafaa alanı olabilirdi mutfak, eğer günlerinin yarısını mutfakta geçiren her kadın o bıçak setlerini yalnız soğan doğramak için değil, kendisine kalkan eli indirmek için de kullanabilseydi.”
― Burçin Tetik, Annemin Kaburgası

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Beside him Lady Partridge, her head tilted up, her face a mask of blusher and brown powder, like someone just back from a skiing holiday, was also clearly elsewhere. From time to time she glanced sideways at her neighbour, and at his drably dressed wife. Nick knew it was upsetting for her to sit next to what she always called an A-rab, but something seemed to kindle in her too at the closeness of so much money.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty