"One is also reminded of how in art the tortoise so often overtakes the hare. Not all, but too many of the best writer…"

"the dividing line between the painterly and the linear [painting] is by no means a hard and fast one."

"It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or ne…"

"The essence of modernism lies in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline it…"

"Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention…"

"It belongs to journalism — and to the millennial complex from which so many journalists and journalist intellectuals …"

"The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that …"

"Perhaps the greatest change that industrialism (along with Protestantism and rationalism) has made in daily life is t…"

"Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, sim…"

"Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the compl…"