Flawlessness is a trivial quality in a work of art.
Jul 122017
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jul 102017
Fiction is more confining than history, for fiction must be plausible, while history need only be real.
Jun 282017
Cultural epochs used to last for centuries, then generations, then decades, now a year or two, and soon it will be fifteen minutes.
Jun 262017
Bohemian, n. Artist without the art.
May 262017
The commercial and avant-garde hacks enslave themselves equally to their audience — one to confirm its expectations, one to frustrate them.
May 192017
God paradoxes are only infinity paradoxes in clerical garb.
Apr 272017
It is the work of art to conceal art, and of criticism to reveal it again.
Apr 142017
If you want realism, you have to make a few things up.
Apr 132017
The work of art is not the object, and not the experience of the object: it is the experience of having experienced it.
Mar 132017
If orchestral performances were movies, the instrumentalists would be celebrated, the conductor credited, and the composer unmentioned.