Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English
literature without having it borne in
on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes,
aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease
on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women
on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»
His work draws
on varied sources, including philosophy,
literature and early cinema to create intricate art works and spellbinding environments in which he explores theories of time and relativity, the history of colonialism and the
aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.
His work draws
on varied sources, including philosophy,
literature, and early cinema to create intricate artworks and spellbinding environments in which he explores theories of time and relativity, the history of colonialism and the
aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.