And Cézanne's "Three Bathers," about which Matisse, who acquired it when he had next to no money, wrote years later: "It has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist.
Matisse held onto his painting for more than three decades before giving it to the Petit Palais in Paris, saying, "It has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist".
Later, after a brilliant academic career, he was entrusted with leading one of the most critical and morally charged projects in the history of science.
"In the 37 years that I have owned this canvas," he wrote to his dealer in 1936, "it has sustained me morally in all the critical moments of my venture as an artist".
It is not only morally imperative, it is critical if we hope to have a livable world to pass onto our children and grandchildren.
Therefore prioritizing children at the Rio Earth Summit is not only morally just but also critical for improving the lives of children today and in the future".
Part of the idea here is that, as Sternbergh writes, "condemning certain aspects of the culture as unworthy or spiritually harmful or, even worse, somehow morally detrimental is a popular critical pastime with a terrible batting average: basically.000, if you want to run the numbers.
A capsule play by Messrs. LaBute, Lonergan, Guirgis, Shinn and even David Auburn of "Proof" might involve an impoverished family of schizoid depressives fiercely debating the existence of God with a set of infanticidal drug dealers, while corrupt police officers look on -- and could anything be morally and politically more self-critical than that?
I have a deep affection for all of these fictional couples, but even the best of on-screen romantic pairings have nothing on Rachel and Quinn, the morally ambiguous antiheroines on Lifetime's critical darling, "UnREAL". .
On top of the need for effective interventions to morally better ourselves, urgency is another critical factor that is addressed in the debate.
