Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wind's speech brought a question from Forster in the discussion session, asking if the critic should primarily make an "aesthetic analysis," and secondarily a "judgement of the artist's responsibility" and aims, or vice versa...
Although criticism can help an artist to avoid defects, "it cannot help him to substitute merits. Only inspiration, connected with the subconscious, can do that." According to Forster, criticism can never "place us inside a work...
There is a young artist called Whistler, Who in every respect is a bristler: A tube of white lead Or a punch on the head Come equally handy to Whistler...
...divine). The "divine" painter penetrates "with his thoughts the nature of everything in heaven and earth, and thus things flow out of his brush in accordance with the truth of the motif." No artist can be "divine" who is not something of a mystic. Some Chinese critics-understandably-think the "divine" is as much as any artist can hope to achieve...
...scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions), Franz Kafka is a major artist...