Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. 216
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. 255
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. 281
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! 209
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. 260
