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Created on 2004-11-12 14:16:48 (#5122672), last updated 2007-03-03
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Bio"And what is the use of all your analysis
If I am to remain always lost in the dark?"
"There is certainly no purpose in remaining in the dark
Except long enough to clear from the mind
The illusion of having ever been in the light."
-T.S. Eliot
"Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there are situations when it will not come in handy at all."
-Lemony Snicket
"And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony...
...What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?"
-A Perfect Circle
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written, or badly written. That it all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteeth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
The moral life of a man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials of an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the art is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
-Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray
[Listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]
Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
-A Clockwork Orange
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
-T.S. Eliot
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
-Gilbert H. Chesterton
I'd like to say that this particular one I snagged is for Gruber's 1st Hour English class of '05 (Hail to the Sinister Sinker):
Pirates arrrrrre love.
Arrrrgh. *pirate position*
If I am to remain always lost in the dark?"
"There is certainly no purpose in remaining in the dark
Except long enough to clear from the mind
The illusion of having ever been in the light."
-T.S. Eliot
"Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there are situations when it will not come in handy at all."
-Lemony Snicket
"And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony...
...What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?"
-A Perfect Circle
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written, or badly written. That it all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteeth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
The moral life of a man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials of an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the art is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
-Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray
[Listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]
Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
-A Clockwork Orange
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
-T.S. Eliot
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
-Gilbert H. Chesterton
I'd like to say that this particular one I snagged is for Gruber's 1st Hour English class of '05 (Hail to the Sinister Sinker):
Pirates arrrrrre love.
Arrrrgh. *pirate position*
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