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.
If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a traditionalist. That is what readers care about. It's what I care about as a reader. Now if I can have that along with a strong girding of ideas and some kind of exciting technical forays - then that is just the jackpot.
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
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