Skip to content

That is what Castle's work needed: a beginner's eye—my eye, before it became too schooled and guarded, while it was still in touch with the vulgar foundations of the art, still vulnerably naive enough to receive that faint and flickering revelation of the dark god whose scriptures are the secret history of the movies.

— Theodore Roszak Flicker (1991)

Another quote →

Topics

Art

More quotes by Theodore Roszak

The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.

The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)

Can those who believe the computer is "an embodiment of mind" really not tell the difference between so poorly a caricature and the true original?

The Gendered Atom (1999)

All Theodore Roszak quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

George MacDonald The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Roszak (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.