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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. - Susa

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard

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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw

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