Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster,… — Quoted

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

Susan Sontag · Science

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Susan Sontag

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.

Experience

Susan Sontag

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

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

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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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