I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
From Susan Sontag
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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.
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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