I don't know of any modification of this - but will work on it - On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Tom McCormack <[email protected]> wrote:
> My son Dan is a film director and screenwriter in Hollywood. He puts the > following question to me. > > ". . .Do you know of any famous modification of Fitzgerald's quote -- > "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed > ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"? > I have a vague recollection of somebody's adjusting that quote to talk > about > the definition of an artist. > Does this ring any bell? If it was in some movie, I'll drop it." > > In typical father fashion, I lumbered Dan with all sorts of reservations > about > the FSF line (which, in fact, Dan shared) but I admitted it did have a > certain > fuzzy provocativeness (much that's provocative in art depends on an > element of > fuzziness). > > But I had no recollection of the line's being altered to talk about the > definition of an artist. Can any members help me (and Dan)? > > Tom McCormack > ASA > New York City > > -- Saul Ostrow *Crtical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011
