Quotes by Sontag, Susan

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- >>

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly o >>

Taste has no system and no proofs. >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the >>

Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same b >>

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihila >>

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan