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. Inter… - Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

"Work is experienced as discipline — the background of which is ascesis — even though it also gives pleasure. One is allowed to become "depersonalized" in work, to forget the self (to lose contact with its most intimate feelings and needs) — indeed all that is necessary if one is to give oneself fully to the work."

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.