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Susan Sontag

"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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Amber Hurdle

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

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Amber Hurdle

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"We do not judge great art. It judges us."

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"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."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
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"Sanity is a cozy lie."
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"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."
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"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."
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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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