This is the opportunity to mention that it's all but worthless to take quotations out of context. Anything said belongs to a time and outlook and needs to be understood as mirroring them and not universal, Platonic truths, except, of course, when speaking of Plato. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 PM Subject: Re: b His concerns and interests are all extremely contemporary, yet he chose to use a painting technique that was nearly 200 years old. We kept asking him why.b Artsy6 quotes: > - In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first > consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. > > Fujiwara no Teika > > This rather dismisses Shakespeare who is credited with coining roughly 1,500 new words.
