December 27th, 2009 / 2:22 pm
 Snippets
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“Do you think a work that is faulty but which has fine and powerful things in it can be considered to have less authenticity than a work that is perfect but without inner resonance?” – Artaud, who will kill himself less than one year after asking (via this gorgeous object)

2 Comments

  1. December 27th, 2009 / 8:53 pm Christian—

      In the quotation the two cases are being handled as if they were being subjected to different kinds of evaluation. I would say that “perfection” is something like “maximum authenticity”; so, no, I think the object with “powerful things” would be closer to perfect and more authentic than the object in the second case.

  2. December 27th, 2009 / 4:53 pm Christian—

      In the quotation the two cases are being handled as if they were being subjected to different kinds of evaluation. I would say that “perfection” is something like “maximum authenticity”; so, no, I think the object with “powerful things” would be closer to perfect and more authentic than the object in the second case.