The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol..

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….

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals..

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his me….

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist..

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

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact..

In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchi….

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. Ho….

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children..

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence..

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority..

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

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision..

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism….

Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that e….

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….

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things..

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..

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

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….