The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.