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| David Thomson
Art depends on the solitude of inspired, talented, or neurotic
egotists. In its expression, it may ease their agonies (for half an
hour); it may bring delight and consolation to some—those hearing
Mahler’s Ninth one night in San Francisco. But Mahler’s Ninth on that
occasion did not house one homeless person. Renoir’s La Grande
Illusion, unequalled in its antiwar sentiments, was prelude to a fresh
war. The moment art finds or claims any utility it is dragged before
the court of justification, and that is a forlorn process. I think it
is correct to see, and insist, that art demands the single-minded,
profitless dedication of time, life, and materials to the quest.Gambling is a pre-emptive attack on fate. |
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