For every piece of pornography, no matter how crude or explicit, critics can be found to praise its bold, transgressive, sophisticated commentary on the acts in question.
Apr 142021
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Apr 052021
Aesthetics trumps not just politics but ethics.
Jan 202021
Beauty has no history, and every history of art is only a history of taste.
Dec 152020
Nearly all great movies adhere quite rigidly to the conventions of a genre, nearly all movies that try not to do so are disasters, and so it is with lives.
Dec 102020
The obscure artist awaits the verdict of posterity, unable to compete with the living, expecting to compete with the dead.
Nov 302020
The land of the blind has a blind god to whom the one-eyed man is sacrificed.
Nov 272020
To set up as an arbiter of good taste is in the worst taste possible.
Nov 172020
We try to convince ourselves that villains are unhappy: it should be enough to know that they are bad.
Nov 122020
A few facts about an artist’s life can, if you’re not careful, spoil his work for good.
Nov 032020
There are atheists in foxholes, but not pacifists.