Content Quote by Susan Sontag

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

— Richard Rohr

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

— J. D. McClatchy

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

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 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

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

In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

— Benjamin Franklin