From the Pad I
By the reclining chair from which I watch movies on our television set I keep a pad of paper. Occasionally someone in one of the visual treats we are enjoying will say something that I think worth making a note of, so I write it on the pad. Many months later I notice that I have a small page of quotations that I wish to preserve but written on a sheet of physical paper that I'd as soon throw away.
It's your lucky day!
From an episode of one of Sister Wendy Beckett's televised series on art ("Sister Wendy's Grand Tour" seems most likely but I can't say for sure–we've enjoyed them all), these two snippets:
I'm besotted with Klee!
When is conceptual art great art? When it produces an image that is visually satisfying.
And now, another two quotations, these from the movie "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", an outstanding film based on the outstanding novel by Muriel Spark that we must have watched at about the same time as the Sister Wendy presentation since these notes were on adjacent sheets. I imagine that both of these came out of the mouth of Maggie Smith in her unforgettable portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie, who was in her prime.
She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter hours.
Mr. Lowther, the philistines are upon us!