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You can't create sublime art, Schmidt would say, eternal art, he'd add, if you believe there will be a tomorrow . . . One must paint, he said, believing the Antichrist is traipsing through the next village.
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"". . . though [he] claimed great art criticism & art theory involved the mind, always at the exclusion of the heart, [his] heart was deeply invested in art no matter what he said; each time [he] insisted that I leave the heart out of it I knew it was his overabundance of heart that frightened him, . . . that plagued his conscience, his flood of emotions that demanded he suppress and even renounce the heart . . ."" — Oct 15, 2026 10:00AM
"". . . though [he] claimed great art criticism & art theory involved the mind, always at the exclusion of the heart, [his] heart was deeply invested in art no matter what he said; each time [he] insisted that I leave the heart out of it I knew it was his overabundance of heart that frightened him, . . . that plagued his conscience, his flood of emotions that demanded he suppress and even renounce the heart . . ."" — Oct 15, 2026 10:00AM
In the lower left field of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, where the cliff’s edge meets the foot of the holy donkey, the initials WFG sit awkwardly. Schmidt and I spent decades trying to discover the origins of this mysterious dedication with no
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This brings to mind Ian McEwan's What We Can Know.
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