Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.