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traditional serious use of silence: as a zone of meditation, preparation for spiritual ripening, an ordeal which ends in gaining the (2/3)

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Silence in this sense, as termination, proposes a mood of ultimacy antithetical to the mood informing the self-conscious artist's (1/3)

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to him, emotionally and ethically, and he is more satisfied by being silent than by finding a voice in art. (2/2)

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Now it's suggested that the highest good for the artist is to reach that point where those goals of excellence become insignificant (1/2)

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a progress toward "the good." But formerly, the artist's good was mastery of and fulfillment in his art. (2/2)

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Through it, the artist becomes purified - of himself and, eventually, of his art, The artist (if not art itself) is still engaged in (1/2)

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Though no longer a confession, art is more than ever a deliverance, an exercise in asceticism.

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judged more impatiently, art is a false way or (the word of the Dada artist Jacques Vaché) a stupidity. (2/2)

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The truly serious attitude is one that regards art as a "means" to something that can perhaps be achieved only by abandoning art; (1/2)

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lasts forever, an "end," a permanent vehicle for spiritual ambition. (2/2)

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That seriousness consists in not regarding art (or philosophy practiced as an art form: Wittgenstein) as something whose seriousness (1/2)

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source of its validity, a certificate of unchallengeable seriousness. (2/2)

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On the contrary, it imparts retroactively an added power and authority to what was broken off; disavowal of the work becoming a new (1/2)

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But the choice of permanent silence doesn't negate their work.

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philosophy, or art as trifling, of no importance.

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his previous achievements in poetry. (2/2)

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Duchamp has turned to chess. And, accompanying these exemplary renunciations of a vocation, each man has declared that he considers (1/2)

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Wittgenstein has first chosen schoolteaching, then menial work as a hospital orderly.

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Rimbaud has gone to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the slave trade.

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The scene changes to an empty room.