Arrangements Quote by Susan Sontag

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make…

— 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

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

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better,…

— Seth Godin

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

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

— Cynthia Freeland

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and…

— Richard Phillips

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann