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

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

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.

But in action, one defies one's character.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

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

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