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Susan Sontag on Halloween

1933–2004 United States

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comformable.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Sontag (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.