The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Lewis MumfordThe cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis MumfordOne of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis MumfordArchitecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
Lewis MumfordEvery new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis MumfordSport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.
Lewis Mumford