Word: intellections
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...Detroit's less accessible executives, yet on this occasion he talked open WITH deep regret I report the death in Rome last week of Alwyn Lee, who has been TIME'S foremost literary critic. He was, as a colleague fondly puts it, "a swinger of the intellect. Until one met him, one never fully understood what the college president means at commencement time when he invites you into 'the fellowship of educated...
Unlike Picasso, Matisse left in his wake no memoirs by discarded mistresses, no picture books by importunate photographers. His paintings themselves are his only biography, but they tell all: an intimate diary as well as a public record of his subtle intuition, his patiently probing intellect, his will. Now Pierre Schneider, an American critic and journalist who works in Paris, has put Matisse's biography on the walls of the Grand Palais, where some 250 pictures span Matisse's prodigious life work. It is the most important show in Europe this year...
...American citizen, the corruption of monotone imaginations. He follows an austerely classical sense of art as the discipline of craft. His credo is essentially that of da Vinci: "The only liberty is through discipline." But he is saved from prodigiously sterile, mechanical retrogression by the capriciousness of his intellect...
...immutable, universal forms, rather than a personal drama of expiation and self-explanation, expressive only of idiosyncrasy. Like all classical artists, he refuses to discuss style. Art must not indulge the consciousness by pandering to its usual experiences and conceptions. It should refine those conceptions, by enlarging the intellect to a higher capacity for complexity and sympathy, through the mental discipline of form...
Igor Stravinsky despises commentary on himself, which is a final vindication of remarkable sanity. His greatness rests in his classic, harmonious balance of intellect and heart, never false to his craft, his faith. His life and art are a testament to the fecund sanity of stern, uncompromising intellectual hostility toward the world in the creation of beauty. His definition of the intellectual stresses the constructive moral power of analytical discipline and exploration...