What did Mason Cooley mean by: Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Animals, Comparison, Humanity, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted. Author, June 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Confusion, Exhaustion, Rage, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Boredom, Cruelty, Vices, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Lovers never want to say “I love you” at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Connection, Love, Timing, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Guilt, Innocence, Outrage, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Charm, Exploitation, Innocence, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine. Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Forgetfulness, Human nature, Procrastination, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ The educated can listen impassively to almost anything. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Composure, Knowledge, Tolerance, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
