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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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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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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I think generally Im kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someones head, that being all they really know of the world. – Charlie Kaufman

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I need more raw experience. Ive read and watched a lot of things, but I havent done a lot of things. – Marc Andreessen

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

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. – Jim Rohn

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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. – Denis Diderot

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. – Isabel Allende

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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. – Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1947

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