Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Skip Collins <skip.collins AT gmail.com>]

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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