authenticity

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• Apr 16 Time Does Not Stop Auguste Rodin, Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell (L'Art, trans. Mrs. Romilly Fedden), Chapter III: Movement in Art It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop...
• Mar 30 The Metre-Making Argument Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and ali...
• Mar 15 Expected an Author Blaise Pascal, Pensées (trans. W.F. Trotter) When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author,...
• Mar 7 Capable of Either Being or Not Being Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, Chapter 4 (trans. W.D. Ross) All art is concerned with coming into being, i.e. with contriving and considering how something may ...
• Feb 18 Inner Necessity Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art The artist must be blind to distinctions between "recognized" or "unrecognized" conventions of form,...
• Feb 2 What We Owe the Dead T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is...
• Jan 16 The Liberty of the Workman John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic...