Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
Art depends on luck and talent.
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