Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I ...was not an artist. But I always thought of myself as one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. All art is concerned with coming into bei...ng ... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being, by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinou...s and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as... a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love aw...ay and there is no longer art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Classical style, he said, is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the ...manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children's infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or... getting married!" That's total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art "scientific" parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nation is not a person, but it manifests certain personal traits, especially since it is a more organic phenomenon than a state.... Its character traits are nothing more and nothing less than tendencies: but these tendencies underlie, and on occasion supersede, other tendencies, other historical conditions. They are manifest in the history of politics: consider, for example, the differences between Russian and Polish and Yugoslav Communists. They are evident in the historical development of societies: consider, for example, the difference between English and Italian industrial workers, or between French bourgeois and Austrian Burger. They are obvious in the historical unfolding of art: consider, for example, the differences between South German and South Italian baroque, or between German and Spanish "Victorian" architecture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent--the Stat...e, family life, secular art and science--was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »