The Memorable:
It is important to play with good sentiment, but never sentimentally
-- Cecile Genhart
Once you have the prevailing wind in your sails, you can tack right, or jibe left; you can use your art to say what you like. But without any wind you are at a standstill, speaking to no one but yourself and the other miserable souls becalmed around you.
-- Bertolt Brecht
The refusal to forget that [colonial and enslaving] history and the insistence on returning to it in order to perceive the parallels between old and new forms of dehumanization and globalization's undertow, the postcolonial's strategic means of debunking the triumphalist narratives of modernism and postmodernism.
-- Coco Fusco
Realism does not lack its partisans, but it does rather conspicuously lack a persuasive theory. And given the nature of our intellectual commerce with works of art, to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial - the means by which out experience of individual works is joined to our understanding of the values they signify.
--Tom Wolfe
"A man is not made for defeat...a man can be destroyed but not defeated"
-Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The Whimsical (just joking...)
Ismenias the Theban, when the torments of sciatica (坐骨神經痛) were troubling a number of Boeotians, is reported to have rid them of all their affliction by his melodies [i.e., music].
-- Boethius, Fundamentals of Music (SR2, p. 30)
"Do not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit."
-- Paul
The continuous development of art is bound up with the Apollinian and Dionysian duality - just as procreation depends on the duality of the sexes, involving perpetual strife with only periodically intervening reconciliations.
-- Nietzsche
Lot of good things...
-- Barry Snyder
