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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention...more

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their...more

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The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry whic...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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All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.