I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.
I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later.
The exhibition has been in process well over three or four years, and it has gone in as many directions as there were years, ... It is far less didactic and representational than the title would imply. It is far more experiential in dealing with visual phenomena, and that's really what connects it to Los Angeles. You will see a number of younger people in the exhibition who owe a significant debt to the experiments of the Light and Space artists in the late '60s. People don't write about it now, but at the time it was very much associated with altered states of consciousness, with drug culture, expanded time. In an odd way, it does come around.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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