Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“Anxiety is a desire for what one fears, a sympathetic antipathy; anxiety is an alien power which grips the individual, and yet he cannot tear himself away from it and does not want to, for one fears, but what he fears he desires.”
Søren Kierkegaard,The Concept of Anxiety
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”
George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
Helen Frankenthaler is interviewed by Eugenia Zukerman on CBS Sunday Morning in 1984:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Of Art”
From 2015:
Read the whole thing here.Sooner or later each generation comes to a great technological divide, a chasm that most of its aging members are unable or unwilling to cross. For my mother, who was born mere weeks before the Great Depression, that chasm was the invention of the personal computer. She owned an answering machine—I bought it for her—but she never screened her calls, nor did she learn how to use a computer. When the PC became a routine part of American life, she was officially old….
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition