Sensory Sweep

Famous quotes containing the words sensory and/or sweep:

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.”
—John Lukacs (b.1924)