The world's history is the world's judgment.
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.