The work of art is not the object, and not the experience of the object: it is the experience of having experienced it.
Apr 132017
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Mar 132017
If orchestral performances were movies, the instrumentalists would be celebrated, the conductor credited, and the composer unmentioned.
Mar 072017
Those who say they don’t believe in love, or art, or politics, or God, always believe acutely, piercingly, in their disbelief.
Jan 262017
The demand for revelation has not slackened; the churches have merely lost their monopoly.
Jan 042017
Ugliness, incompetence, immaturity: these have become ideologies — no longer failures but ends in themselves.
Nov 292016
Artists should be judged by their best work. Architects do not have this luxury.
Nov 102016
For most of history it was prohibited for the mass of men to express themselves: then, briefly, it was permitted: now it is required.
Oct 212016
We need not approve of the audience to crave its approval.
Oct 122016
Religion will persist forever because of reality’s stubborn refusal to accord with our primitive notions of justice.
Sep 282016
The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.