“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”
“Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.”
“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
“Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.”
“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”
“...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.”