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" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

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" 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. "

" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

" I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. "

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" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "

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" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

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" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

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" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

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" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. "

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. "

" The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "