A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

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 Everything is settled. There is a specific way to do each new thing. There is even an agreed upon way to break the rules.
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. I see now the problem is that I am a complete ideologue when it comes to theatre: always fighting for a certain, extremely specific, way o...

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. From such frustrations no clear thought will come. Step back, a few steps or a few miles, start slowly, gradually discover the slight,...

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. We never tried to force it. We understood that time was the remedy for our dilemmas, time and thought, not ingenuity or revelation. ...

. My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I d...

. And what did it mean that we felt no true sense of direction, that we were aimless, paralyzed, confused and at the end of the day coul...

. As is generally known, the figure of the art critic emerges at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, ...

. I am currently reading Secret Publicity by Netherlands art critic Sven Lutticken. There are many relevant quotes but here are one or two ...

. "I feel that man should not have thrown himself into this amazing adventure that is history. Everything that he does turns agains...

. "Every impulse of renovation, at the very moment when it approaches its goal, when it realizes itself through the State, creeps t...