These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether ….

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but al….

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this vi….

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the co….

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of ….

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted..

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy..

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutio….

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past..

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and wo….

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to uni….

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs..

The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional uni….

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation..

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision..

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever….

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough..

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselv….

Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however….

I know of no better name than Anarchism..

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected..