when one is emptied of music...
"the man that hath no music in himself,
nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
the motions of his spirit are dull as night."
(shakespeare's the merchant of venice,
via kandinsky's the spiritual in art)
Labels: kandinsky, shakespeare
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how does this relate to Kadinsky?
is this odd and seeming double exposure of or by Kadinsky?
kandinsky used this quote in his book, the spiritual in abstraction.
thanks
I love that quote, it covers so much territory - the idea that those to whom something without a calculated value is worthless are not be trusted - but then again, Wallace Stevens has a counter-argument of sorts:
The maker of catastrophe invents the eye
And through the eye equates ten thousand deaths
With a single well-tempered apricot, or, say,
An egg-plant of good air.
From the Academy of Fine Ideas.
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