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On Reflection, Moral Judgment In The Arts Appears Rather As A Tribute To Their Power To Influence Emotion And Possibly Conduct. And Reflecting Further On What Some Critics Do Today, One Sees That A Good Many Have Merely Shifted The Ground Of Their Moralism, Transferring Their Impulse Of Righteousness To Politics And Social Issues.

A Person Is Not A Democrat Thanks To His Ignorance Of Literature And The Arts, Nor An Elitist Because He Or She Has Cultivated Them. The Possession Of Knowledge Makes For Unjust Power Over Others Only If Used For That Very Purpose: A Physician Or Lawyer Or Clergyman Can Exploit Or Humiliate Others, Or He Can Be A Humanitarian And A Benefactor. In Any Case, It Is Absurd To Conjure Up Behind Anybody Who Exploits His Educated Status The Existence Of An "elite" Scheming To Oppress The Rest Of Us.

In Producers, Loafing Is Productive; And No Creator, Of Whatever Magnitude, Has Ever Been Able To Skip That Stage, Any More Than A Mother Can Skip Gestation.

My Notion About Any Artist Is That We Honor Him Best By Reading Him, By Playing His Music, By Seeing His Plays Or By Looking At His Pictures. We Don't Need To Fall All Over Ourselves With Adjectives And Epithets. Let's Play Him More.

Old Age Is Like Learning A New Profession. And Not One Of Your Own Choosing.