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Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Susan Rosenblatt
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
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Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
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Experiences aren't pornographic only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
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The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.
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Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.
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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 whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
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The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
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The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
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One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
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Paintings invariably sum up photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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