Quote of the Day | 0206
… You cannot have art without a public taste and you cannot have a public taste without a sense of style and quality throughout the social structure. Curiously enough this sense of style seems to have very little to do with refinement or even humanity. It can exist in a dirty and savage age, but it cannot exist in an age of the Book of the Month Club, the Hearst Press, and the Coca-Cola machine. You can’t produce art by trying, by setting up exacting standards, by talking about critical minutiae, by the Flaubert method. It is produced with great ease, and without self-consciousness. You can’t write just because you have read all the books.
Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: 1909-1959
Also quoted in the magazine: Five Dials Number 2 [pdf].
[x]#5418 fan vrijdag 6 februari 2009 @ 17:45:55
