Roger Kimball

Quotes by Roger Kimball

• It is often said that great works of art are —inexhaustible—— capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of —endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, demonstrates in painful if inadvertently hilarious detail that this does not mean that works of art are immune from - that they are not in fact often subject to— wild and perverse misinterpretation.

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• It is often said that great works of art are —inexhaustible—— capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of —endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, demonstrates in painful if inadvertently hilarious detail that this does not mean that works of art are immune from - that they are not in fact often subject to— wild and perverse misinterpretation.

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• Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

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