If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back f….

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'..

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

Man is everywhere still in chains..

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos..

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation..

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true..

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest struc….

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….

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 ….

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration..

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

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….

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of ….

I know of no better name than Anarchism..

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are i….

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that the….

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 ….

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or eff….