Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet plays “Sugar” at a 1974 concert in Berlin. Braff is on cornet, George Barnes and Wayne Wright on guitars, and Michael Moore on bass:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“I don’t say that we artists are more intelligent or that we know more than everybody else. Not at all. It’s just that we have more time, and we’ve dedicated our time to the search for truth. All the other people, after all, have to work to make a living as bankers, state employees, or railroad engineers. When we artists discover a little bit of truth, well, we open a new window and show new landscape, and people are thankful to us for that. They say: ‘But that’s the truth!’ And it’s even truer, because the landscape we discover, the landscape we show, is one they already know. But they never saw it in that way before.”
Jean Renoir, interviewed by Gideon Bachmann (Contact, June 1960)