Art Quote by Susan Sontag

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into…

— Susan Sontag

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

— Susan Sontag

“Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.

— Lisa Madigan

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and…

— Jon Corzine

Roses are red, violates are blue, hes for me not for you, if by chance you take my place, I'll take my fists and…

— Anna

We will continue to pursue anybody who violates our franchise covenants, trade agreements, or anything, for that matter, that is ours.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

— Philip E. Berger