Susan Sontag Quotes About Today
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The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
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Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.
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The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
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Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.
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The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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