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Quotes Tagged "canon"

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tags: writing, literature, canon, art
Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before. Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded he authority of the classic.
— James A. Secord Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication
Tags: science, reading, palimpsest, history-of-science, forgetting, classics, canon
Working on 'Clone Wars,' it was always canon.
— Dave Filoni
Tags: wars, canon, working, always
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
— Brian Ferneyhough
Tags: canon, composers, about, opposition
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