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 a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

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.

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.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.