The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illu….

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….

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert….

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

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish..

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group..

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Ro….

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical..

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

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an ind….

Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension….

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….

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

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restr….

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and natio….

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye….

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….

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event..

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the….

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a….

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind..