In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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“It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.”
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”