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- Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at…
- To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like…
- Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
- Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
- Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what…
- Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
- Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
- American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most…
- A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
- Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,…
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
- Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an…
- A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to…
- The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
- Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and…
- In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the…
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
- Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens…
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