Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

But in action, one defies one's character.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.