The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.... Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straig...htshooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itse...lf out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »