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 142023
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
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.
Mar 092023
Things are not always what they seem, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 022023
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not because it is subjective, but because it must be noticed.
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.