Canon Quotes

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that...

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil fo...

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those ...

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us ...

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classro...

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.