Archives for November 6, 2012

From 2004:

Ever since I became the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, I’ve been seeing two or three plays a week, which appears to satisfy most of my interior demand for plot-driven narrative. When I’m not watching a play or a film, I now find I’d just as soon go to the ballet, look at paintings, or listen to music. And what do these latter art forms have in common? They’re not narrative-driven, at least not in the way that novels and dramatic TV series require you to follow a verbally articulated story line as it unfolds through time. I get enough of that at the office….

Read the whole thing here.

“Artists are artists because they have an extra sensitivity–a skin less, perhaps, than other people; and the great ones have an uncomfortable habit of being right about many things, long before their time.”
Benjamin Britten, “Freeman of Lowestoft”