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Quote by Susan Sontag
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of ar

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

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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. – Susan Sontag

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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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As an actress, its part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything – even if its not within your personal experience. – Rachel Weisz

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