Quotes with tames

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. 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, conformable.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• interpretation
• interpreting
• conformable
• prolonged
• endurance
• tames

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