The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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

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

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all...

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all...