Yay I found Kenneth Tynan's complete review of Waiting For Godot, The Observer, 7 August 1995, on Google Books:A special virtue attaches to plays which remind the drama of how much it can do without and still exist. By all the known criteria, Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' is a dramatic vacuum. Pity the critic who seeks a chink in its ( Read more... )

"If all art made in Vienna in the first two decades of the twentieth century had been immediately exhibited, six million Jews would not have been executed in World War II." Barnett Newman, in the Longview Country Club, 1968 ( Read more... )

Robert Hughes on the painting of Winslow Homer's Fox Hunt (1893):To get it right, Homer -- who much preferred fishing to hunting -- had a friend at Prout's Neck shoot him a fox and a couple of crows. The fox was wired to stakes to make it look lifelike, and he strung the crows on a clothesline above. At night he would bury the fox in a snowdrift ( Read more... )

Random quote of the day:To speak of "compensation for authors" in connection with copyright carries the assumptions that (1) copyright exists for the sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, we take on a debt to the author which we must then repay. The first assumption is simply false, and the second is outrageous.
Richard M StallmanI was ( Read more... )

"The recent past always presents itself as though it had been destroyed by catastrophes ( Read more... )

gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the exaggeration of its own despair. (SHELLEY ( Read more... )

Stewart Home on Oi!( Read more... )

The entire text of Stewart Homes's book The Assault on Culture is available online. It's one of the best books about post-WW2 avantgardism (Cobra, Lettrism, Situationism, Fluxus, Mail-Art, Punk, etc). And it's short. Semi-random quote:1947 saw the prestigious publishing house Gallimard issuing [Isidore] Isou's Lettriste manifesto "Introduction a ( Read more... )

Andre Breton, Manifesto of SurrealismChère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas ( Read more... )