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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. — Susan Sontag

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. — Susan Sontag

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

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences. — Susan Sontag

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag

The only interesting ideas are heresies — Susan Sontag

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. — Susan Sontag

The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched. — Susan Sontag

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. — Susan Sontag

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much. — Susan Sontag

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself. — Susan Sontag

The "Art Nouveau" appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. "I'm alive." "I'm decorative. — Susan Sontag

Art is seduction, not rape. — Susan Sontag

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag

Philosophy is an art form - art of thought or thought as art — Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. — Susan Sontag

To discuss the idea of silence in art is to discuss the various alternatives within this essentially unalterable situation. 4 — Susan Sontag

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history. — Susan Sontag

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. — Susan Sontag

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. — Susan Sontag

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it. — Susan Sontag

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. — Sontag, Susan

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement. — Susan Sontag

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption. — Susan Sontag

Art is a form of consciousness. — Susan Sontag

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all. — Susan Sontag

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. — Susan Sontag