Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. 654
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. 1.16K
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. 641
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. 2.49K
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. 691
I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. 667
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. 918
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. 2.33K
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. 1.03K
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. 643
