I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.Susan Sontag
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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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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