Re: "The systematic preference for ideas to the detriment of aesthetics in contemporary art reflects a painful imbalance in our modern lives."

[Cheerskep]

In a playscript I'm now revising, a character says:

"I'd never write a story to bsayb something. Guaranteed: Except for a few
passing rants, Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet to say something. He wrote it
to do something -- to those who listened and saw."