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«Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.»
«The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, context, corrupting, ethical, tastes, The Hard
«The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
connoisseur, connoisseurs, The Connoisseur
«The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.»
«It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.»
«Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.»
«A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.»
«The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.»
«Taste has no system and no proofs.»
«It is not the position, but the disposition.»
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