In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Interpretation
Art has the power to redeem and transform through its expression.
Raymond Chandler suggests that all forms of art possess an inherent quality of redemption, implying that artistic expression can provide healing, renewal, and a sense of salvation both for the creator and the audience. This perspective highlights art's ability to transcend mere aesthetics, serving as a catalyst for personal and communal growth and transformation.
In practice
During an art exhibition, one might use this quote to discuss the transformative power of the works displayed.
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
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