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" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

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" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "

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

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

" 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. "

" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

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

" 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. "

" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. "

" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "

" Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "