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

“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called…

— Norhtrop Frye

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates