A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adria...tic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the ...greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miracul...ous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act... awaits them, their act ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act of rage... And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make Our purpose necessary, and not envious; Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be called purgers, not murderers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart... In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »