Comments on: Susan Sontag is King Kong http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2006/09/10/susan-sontag-is-king-kong/ Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: evicious http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2006/09/10/susan-sontag-is-king-kong/comment-page-1/#comment-5519 evicious Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:59:03 +0000 http://www.gen-o.com/blog/?p=138#comment-5519 I haven't read the piece in NYTM, so I tried not to read your blog because I wanted to decide for myself what I liked best. But I couldn't help myself. I bet your favorites are these: "I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing — not just a waiting." …. "The only people who should interest themselves in an art (or several arts) are those who practice it — or have — or aspire to. The whole idea of an “audience” is wrong. The artist’s audience is his peers." Now I need at least another three weeks before I can read the NYTM article on my own, and even then, I am not sure I can distinguish among quotes I like; quotes I think I like but it's really only because they stood out in my mind after reading them in your blog; and quotes I like partly because you liked them. I haven’t read the piece in NYTM, so I tried not to read your blog because I wanted to decide for myself what I liked best. But I couldn’t help myself.

I bet your favorites are these:

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing — not just a waiting.”
….
“The only people who should interest themselves in an art (or several arts) are those who practice it — or have — or aspire to. The whole idea of an “audience” is wrong. The artist’s audience is his peers.”

Now I need at least another three weeks before I can read the NYTM article on my own, and even then, I am not sure I can distinguish among quotes I like; quotes I think I like but it’s really only because they stood out in my mind after reading them in your blog; and quotes I like partly because you liked them.

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