“Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.”
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
“Art is revolt against fate.”
“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”
“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen against the architectural vestiges of a beautiful past.”
“The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.”