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Fairfield Porter - Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975
FULL FRONTAL Getting cut out of a movie is one of the worst things that can happen to an actor. Getting cut out of a movie when the director is Steven Soderbergh and you’re at the premiere and don’t know you’ve been cut out is the absolute worst.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Art, after all, is supposed to be a kind of communication, and “personal expression” is cinematically interesting only to the extent that what’s expressed finds and strikes chords within the viewer. The difference between experiencing art that succeeds as communication and art that doesn’t is rather like the difference between being sexually intima
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the game’s technicians revered, but in fact the opposite—not-order, limit,
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
avant-garde film circles and single-handedly founded the Enfield Tennis Academy but drinks Wild Turkey at like 5:00 A.M.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk, is probably more m