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“If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.”

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“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.”

Art Essence

Book:Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

Source: Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.”

Art Aesthetics

Book:Highcastle: A Remembrance

Source: Highcastle: A Remembrance

“Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.”

Thinking Art

Book:boring boring boring boring boring boring boring

Source: boring boring boring boring boring boring boring

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.”

Art Order Consumption Obscene

Author:Jennifer Birkett

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