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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and read more
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark read more
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can read more
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to read more
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
