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Real Quotes by Susan Sontag
- In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us…
- A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly…
- Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
- Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
- Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
- 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…
- Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- ...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…
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