April 2010
2 posts
No Art for Art's Sake
“[T]here is no such thing as ‘art for art’s sake.’ […] For if the artist created only for himself and not for others, he would lock himself up somewhere and paint or write or play just for himself. But he does not do that. On the contrary, he invites us over, even insists that we come to hear him or to see his work; in a word, he expresses a need for our evaluation and/or appreciation […]”
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Def Comedy Vitalis
If there’s one veritable fact of life, it’s that life has a sense of humor. A kind of disgusting, all-permeating, inopportune irony that’s just waiting to be noticed. For instance, the whole “when it rains, it pours” thing and if you really want to say something then it’s probably a bad time to say it thing and vice versa. Funny enough, the physical laws that...