"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
― W. H. Auden
Topic(s):
Art
More From W. H. Auden
- "Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say."
- "‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’"
- "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
More In Art
- "Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience."― Jon Bon Jovi
- "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."― James Whistler
- "The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."― Gustave Flaubert