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  • From: Skip Collins <skip.collins AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] quote source
  • Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:05:48 -0400

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Henry Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
> "My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a
> sort, but of a particular sort, that in art, whether it's poetry, fiction or
> painting, you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something
> he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in
> the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he
> has been there before, a shock of recognition. And so what the artist does,
> or tries to do, is simply to validate the human experience and to tell
> people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know."

This is from a 1968 interview with Carlton Cremeens collected in
Conversations with Walker Percy.

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