“Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.” PoetryLiteratureComplexesSimplicityAriseArtisticComplexityLatterSimplificationBackdrop Author:Yuri Lotman
“A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.” DoeImportantIdeasWholeSeemsPoetryLiteratureEffectsComplexesStrikesAriseNakedArtisticTiesNecksComparisonMuseumsComponentsStatuesApolloIdeological Author:Yuri Lotman
