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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.


Susan Sontag

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SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
SUN-TZU She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
SHANNON L. ALDER Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...
OSCAR WILDE Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...
OSCAR WILDE Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTIN The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan ...
BETH HENLEY Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.
P.S. BABER Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
ANDRE BRETON Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discrimin...
WALTER PATER Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
KARL KRAUS Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style becau...
FRANZ MARC Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is ...
TOM BLAIR Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Art knows no boundaries.... Expressive art; Timeless piece; Artistic representation of feelings with...
MAKO ANTENOR Art is revolution, or it's nothing.
STEVEN ARNOLD Dear God, where art thou? more or less importantly, whom.
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
KURT GOLDSTEIN Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
IRIS MURDOCH Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their...
KAKUZō OKAKURA My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
RICK MOODY Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forc...
AMIRI BARAKA Thought is more important than art. . . . To revere art and have no understanding of the process tha...
IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the...
PIET HEIN The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
WALTER BAGEHOT With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something.....
SHANNON TAYLOR HODNETT In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
GEORG CANTOR Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways oth...
FRED KAPLAN The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
AGNES GUND Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace mar...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the gre...
EDGAR DEGAS It's more mental than anything else. It is more than just the art of shooting.
JACKY GADDIS Building and maintaining relationship in life is not Art. Art is only half part of heART. Art can te...
ANUJ SOMANY The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
ANDREI VOZNESENSKY The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We...
HANS HAACKE Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the les...
CLIFFORD GEERTZ What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
ANITA BROOKNER Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
GEORGE ELIOT El Nino is more of an art than a science.
DANIEL BASSE The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
BERNARD M. BARUCH There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
CYRIL CONNOLLY There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...
WILLIAM OSLER Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of...
LIN YUTANG Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.
JENNIFER NETTLES She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
ROBERT MOTHERWELL Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using ...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
COLIN POWELL Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely...
DENNIS C. BLAIR There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ...
JACOB EPSTEIN Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
ELVIS MITCHELL To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more ...
THOMAS MOORE I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based gene...
JEFF KOONS Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regio...
ROBERT SMITHSON Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, i...
FREDERIC CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,...
CHOPIN Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is...
MAO ZEDONG Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
OSCAR WILDE Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...
ANDY WARHOL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art...Making money is art and working is art ...
ANDY WARHOL The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercial...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commerciali...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON The more you know, the less you need.
YVON CHOUINARD Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
WALTER WINCHELL Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Creativity is more than the capacity to be inventive or innovative; it’s more than the ability to ...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON There is nothing new in art except talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There I was, sitting in his office, with three portfolios full of Roberto's final art, the 140-page ...
M. ZACHARY SHERMAN

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SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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