“Accepting life whole and keeping one’s love of art from idolatry means remembering that nonliving things must be loved soberly. The living have first claim, and fellow feeling for them should stir not only at the sight of sorrow and pain, but at the call of the imagination.”
Jacques Barzun, “Towards a Fateful Serenity” (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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