A Large Share Of Our Art Heritage

Our Civilization ... Is Not Devaluing Its Awareness Of The Unknowable; Nor Is It Deifying It. It Is The First Civilization That Has Severed It From Religion And Superstition. In Order To Question It.

If Man Is Not Ready To Risk His Life, Where Is His Dignity?

The Great Christian Art Did Not Die Because All Possible Forms Had Been Used Up; It Died Because Faith Was Being Transformed Into Piety. Now, The Same Conquest Of The Outside World That Brought In Our Modern Individualism, So Different From That Of The Renaissance, Is By Way Of Relativizing The Individual. It Is Plain To See That Man's Faculty Of Transformation, Which Began By A Remaking Of The Natural World, Has Ended By Calling Man Himself Into Question.

To Command Is To Serve, Nothing More And Nothing Less.

In So Far As He Is A Creator, The Artist Does Not Belong To A Social Group Already Moulded By A Culture, But To A Culture Which He Is By Way Of Building Up.