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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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. – Bell Hooks

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I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but its nothing like that at all. Its a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because youre filling in spaces. – Charlie Kaufman

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. – Karl Marx

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. – Heinrich Heine

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