Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wallShe walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia....
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others.And the bestial, namely the fanatical,...
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but sh...
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetr...
Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Literature is news which stays news.
Literature is news that stays news.
Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care...
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.