Any sufficiently naive use of the word “science” is indistinguishable from the word “magic.”
Nov 272014
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Nov 062014
Beauty that does not in some way modify your standards for beauty is kitsch.
Oct 132014
Sometimes it is the work of art that looks at you and finds you wanting.
Sep 292014
Whether joy and suffering are regarded as immoral depends on which comes first.
Sep 192014
Most of the great art ever produced has been destroyed, forgotten, or unrecognized.
Sep 162014
Man oscillates continuously between wishing to remain exactly as he is and wishing to become something, anything else.
Sep 152014
Sanity is correspondence at the expense of coherence. Madness is coherence at the expense of correspondence.
Aug 112014
One can achieve certain intense aesthetic experiences only at the cost of missing out on others entirely.
Aug 082014
Exceptionally bad art sometimes acquires a constituency, the way famous murderers attract marriage proposals.
Aug 072014
Art corrupts politics more than politics corrupts art.