God paradoxes are only infinity paradoxes in clerical garb.
May 192017
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Apr 272017
It is the work of art to conceal art, and of criticism to reveal it again.
Apr 142017
If you want realism, you have to make a few things up.
Apr 132017
The work of art is not the object, and not the experience of the object: it is the experience of having experienced it.
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.