It is obvious that art cannot
teach anyone anything,
since in four thousand years
humanity has learnt nothing at all.
We should long ago have become angels
had we been capable of paying attention
to the experience of art, and
allowing ourselves to be changed
in accordance with the ideals
it expresses.
--Andrei Tarkovsky.
The poet has nothing to be proud of.
He is not master of the situation,
but a servant.
Creative work is his only
possible form of existence,
and his every work is like a deed
he has no power to annul.
For him to be aware that the sequence of
such deeds is due and ripe,
that it lies in the very nature of things,
he has to have faith in the idea;
for only faith interlocks the system of images
for which read system of life.
--- Andrei Tarkovsky.
the most dangerous.
Not only are educated people likely
to have more influence,
they are the last people to suspect that
they don't know what they are talking about
when they go outside their narrow fields.
---- https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell
