> 'I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Nabokov answered this to a question about his religious beliefs. What does that make him? I don't get it.
Also, what did he mean by "taking art seriously"? Because he didn't believe art has any use or purpose, and you can't learn anything from it.
Ergo, he's a hack.
Hannah Arendt on Nabokov