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Art Nothing

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

- Susan Sontag

Quote of the Day

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

Women Men

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

- Susan Sontag

Art

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

- Susan Sontag

Man Life

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

- Susan Sontag

Rules

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

- Susan Sontag

People

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

- Susan Sontag

Past America

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

- Susan Sontag

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Art Years

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

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Art First

Insight is the first condition of Art.

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Art Sense

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

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Art

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

- Jean Cocteau

Flowers Art

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

- Lincoln Steffens

Writing Art First Time

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

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