Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what--eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of liv...ing longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. Th...e word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade artless islanders that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out ...of art history. It is a male idea that to be "high" and "fine" both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compass...ionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & unformed & unimportant drivel; & until the raw ingredients of a ...pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation & thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »