Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that r…

Art is a revolt against fate.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of h…

We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.