Quotes about Canon

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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets aft — Kamand Kojouri
The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I a — Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why
The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more — Marius Vieth
How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digita — Rebecca McNutt
Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fic — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, somet — Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and televis — Rebecca McNutt
A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been — Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of — Harold Bloom
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments wit — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the c — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael — Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.
Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Ren — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from — Dan Phillips
On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. Th — Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the ca — Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine
Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): — R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity. — John Adams, The Portable John Adams
What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth