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Seeming

Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.

Apr 142023
 

Art, like science, may be regarded by the practitioner as a collective body of work to which he hopes to make a small contribution.

Apr 052023
 

Domestic sentiment is impossible to portray effectively in art, because it is universal, deeply felt, and always the same.

Mar 282023
 

It is as misdirected to love or admire science, in the large, as poetry. One must ask after not poetry but poems, and not science but experiments.

Mar 212023
 

Eccentric diets and exercise — vegan, paleo, ultra-marathon, yoga — advertise themselves as cures for the body; in fact they are cures for the soul, often at the body’s expense.

Mar 142023
 

We preach for our politics, and for our religion, but preachers for art are known as “critics” and justly regarded as an alien species.

Feb 212023
 

Movie reviews are for people who might watch the movie; book reviews are for people who won’t read the book.

Feb 162023
 

A man can be judged by what he is supposed to have said.

Feb 092023
 

Visconti’s The Leopard is to movies what the first Velvet Underground record is to music: almost no one sat through it, but everyone who did became a director.