The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, i...t showed up both with unusual clarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The gre...ater the "genius" of the personage, the greater the profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendant...s praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture...." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »