Quotations: Art
The National Endowment for the Arts aside, recognition and respect aren't some sort of artistic blank check to be drawn on by an endlessly dutiful audience, and it's absurd to simply assert that Glass, or any artist for that matter, "deserves" our recognition and respect without regard to whatever affection (or disaffection) we may feel for his work.
Howard E. Motteler
But Mother Judith's conviction was formed; and on that same day she noticed for the first time that if Ernie was suddenly interrupted in his reading, he raised a blank expression, swollen by dream and delirium, recognising one only reluctantly.
"Where are you?" she asked him gently.
And as the child gazed at her without pleasure, she was sorry not to be able to follow him into that sphere where things invisible to the naked eye are so beautiful, that anyone who can read has no further desire to return to this world.
André Schwarz-Bart, The Last of the Just, p. 142.
