ART RIFT
In his masterful work on William Blake, Fearful Symmetry, Northrop Frye gives us the following Blake quote (p. 97):
"The great and golden rule of art, as well as of life, is this: That the more distinct, sharp and wirey the bounding line, the more perfect the work of art, and the less keen and sharp, the greater the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism, and bungling....The want of this determinate and bounding form evidences the want of idea in the artist's mind, and the pretence of the plagiary in all its branches...What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate?...Leave out the line, and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again, and the line of the almighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist?"
It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. - Dizzy Gillespie
Infinite directions to go. Only one is perfect. Not so easy to stay on track.
I like this one better:
