None but the dead have free speech.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
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I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.
~ Marcel Proust
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When photography was developed in the 19th century, it replaced painting for most utilitarian purposes; a camera could document what things looked like more accurately and cheaply than a painter could. But the art of painting didn’t die out. On the contrary, it entered a golden age: Freed from the obligation of realism, painters developed radical new ways of seeing, such as Impressionism, Cubism, and abstract expressionism. Now AI has the potential to liberate literature in the same way.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~ Charles Dickens
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus
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