Monday, December 17, 2012

Art enables and liberates, cripples and enslaves

"Before Dickens there were no fogs, and before Turner no sunsets."
-- Oscar Wilde



"Art enables and liberates its audience, but it can also disable and enslave the subsequent generation of writers."



"In every generation we recognise a leader race of masterminds whose ideas - 'class-struggle', 'Oedipus complex', 'identity crisis' - come down over us like butterfly nets." 
-- Saul Bellow