“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
“A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.”
“What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.”
“Our element is unending immaturity.”
“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.”
“Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.”