Limited information is available about Jonathan Santlofer, who was born in 1946 and is of an unknown profession.
“A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)” LifeHomeAmericaNew YorkNew York CityAmerican DreamAngstShort StoriesCity LifeReal EstateLong IslandHousesAnthologies Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.” FeelsResponsibilityReaderStandardsPaidAppropriateBetrayedTrust MeDouble StandardUnfaithful Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.” IfsProblemArtistLeftBrainTalkingAccountsHopelessAdequateInsultingImplyingTalking To SomeoneLeft Brain Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.” PeopleSometimesArtistTasteEmptyCookingFingersKitchenCakePlatesChefAssurance Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful. But that's just momentary. And then it's about how to make it work. Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.” FeelsWritingMeanSometimesMatterLanguagePleasureLaughingAliveJokesNo Matter WhatMediumsPaceMomentary Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.” FoundAudienceApproachStandardsVulnerableHigh Standards Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly.” KnowsWayWritingArtIdeasSchoolRememberTalkingCrazyLessonsCriticsPainfulEducatedDiscoveringCrazy IdeasArt Critic Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman. These things do not come near it - the experience of beauty, the event of beauty. The anxiety about it is what makes it such a central concern of culture and makes us so interested in it.” ArtWholeHappensEyeBeautifulArtistCultureSubjectsEventsObjectsAnxietyConcernRelationBeautiful WomenBeholderEye Of The BeholderBeauty Is In The Eye Of The BeholderBeautiful Objects Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.” IfsDoubtDegreesJudgmentSanity Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.” PersonsArtProblemRealityPoliticalArtistTalkingTroublePerspectiveKingsTerribleArt IsShoesContactSupposed To BeDriversBusMinimumBus DriverPerspective On ThingsPolitical Art Author:Jonathan Santlofer
