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Three Quotations
May. 13th, 2006 10:59 pmIn today's issue of The Writer's Almanac, we learn that Georges Braque said, "There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain." Is it true? I have no idea, but I like thinking about it.
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twoeleven, who has read every draft of every chapter of the big book, some of them more than once, and who has commented extensively on all of them--who does me the great kindness of pushing back wherever the book looks weak--sends me this bit from John Kenneth Galbraith's obituary in The Economist: "Mr. Galbraith strove to perfect his prose, reworking each passage at least five times. 'It was usually on about day four that I put in that note of spontaneity for which I am known', he once admitted." Yes, it's like that.
Today, reading the current issue of Locus, I came across a little piece about Somtow Sucharitkul, who is mounting a Buddhist interpretation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bangkok. Yes, he thinks it's weird idea, too, but adds that "nothing important has ever happened in art when an audience has been ready for it." How tempting it is to flatter myself that I should take that statement as comfort, or even discouragement.
twoeleven, who has read every draft of every chapter of the big book, some of them more than once, and who has commented extensively on all of them--who does me the great kindness of pushing back wherever the book looks weak--sends me this bit from John Kenneth Galbraith's obituary in The Economist: "Mr. Galbraith strove to perfect his prose, reworking each passage at least five times. 'It was usually on about day four that I put in that note of spontaneity for which I am known', he once admitted." Yes, it's like that.Today, reading the current issue of Locus, I came across a little piece about Somtow Sucharitkul, who is mounting a Buddhist interpretation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bangkok. Yes, he thinks it's weird idea, too, but adds that "nothing important has ever happened in art when an audience has been ready for it." How tempting it is to flatter myself that I should take that statement as comfort, or even discouragement.
