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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

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Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the pas...more

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All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

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But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be cal...more

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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

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The only interesting ideas are heresies

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who...more