If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. …

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make i…

But it's true, isn't it Pauline, that people imagine that the artists and their models spend their time getting up to all sorts of obscenities? As far as work …

...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a…