Northrop Frye Quotes About Art

• El hecho de que los poderes creativos provengan de un área de la mente que parece ser independiente de la voluntad consciente, y que a menudo surjan con una buena dosis de perturbación emocional a su paso, proporciona la principal analogía entre la profecía y las artes... Algunas personas persiguen la totalidad y la integración, otras se destrozan, y del destrozo se rescatan fragmentos de una intensidad que las personas de la totalidad y la integración no alcanzan.

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Independiente, Emocional

  "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

• Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Naturaleza, Artista

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.257, University of Toronto Press

• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Elements

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

• There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Energy

  "The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 (Design as a Principle in the Arts)". Book edited by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner, March 14, 2009.

• Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Growing Up, People

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.108, Princeton University Press

• No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Dar, Imaginación

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.473, University of Toronto Press

• In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Poesía, Literatura

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.74, Princeton University Press

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, What If, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

• La ciencia comienza con el mundo en el que nos ha tocado vivir, aceptando sus datos e intentando explicar sus leyes. A partir de ahí, avanza hacia la imaginación: se convierte en una construcción mental, un modelo de una posible forma de interpretar la experiencia. Cuanto más avanza en esta dirección, más tiende a hablar el lenguaje de las matemáticas, que en realidad es uno de los lenguajes de la imaginación, junto con la literatura y la música. El arte, en cambio, parte del mundo que construimos, no del mundo que vemos. Comienza con la imaginación y luego se dirige hacia la experiencia ordinaria.

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Conmoción, Ciencia

• A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Memories, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.4, Princeton University Press

• Uno de los usos más obvios de la literatura, creo, es su fomento de la tolerancia... A los fanáticos y los intolerantes rara vez les sirven las artes, porque están tan preocupados por sus creencias y acciones que no pueden verlas también como posibilidades.

  Northrop Frye

  Arte, Tolerancia, Uso

  "The Educated Imagination (Talk 3: Giants in Time)". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

• Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, People, Use

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.10, Princeton University Press

• La física es un conjunto organizado de conocimientos sobre la naturaleza, y quien la estudia dice que está aprendiendo física, no naturaleza. El arte, como la naturaleza, debe distinguirse de su estudio sistemático, que es la crítica.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Criticism, Body

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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