Quotes from the World for Saturday 01/19/MMXIII

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.”

Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. repr. In Against Interpretation (1966). “Against Interpretation,” sect. 4, Evergreen Review (December 1964).