New York Is The Perfect Model Of

Because Of Their Origin And Purpose, The Meanings Of Art Are Of A Different Order From The Operational Meanings Of Science And Technics: They Relate, Not To External Means And Consequences, But To Internal Transformations, And Unless It Produce These Internal Transformations The Work Of Art Is Either Perfunctory Or Dead.

It Was Stieglitz's Endeavor... To Translate The Unseen World Of Tactile Values As They Develop Between Lovers Not Merely Into The Sexual Act But The Entire Relation Of Two Personalities - To Translate This World Of Blind Touch Into Sight.

Life Is An Art We Are Required To Practice Without Preparation, A Score That We Play At Sight Even Before We Have Mastered Our Instruments.

The Chief Function Of The City Is To Convert Power Into Form, Energy Into Culture, Dead Matter Into The Living Symbols Of Art, Biological Reproduction Into Social Creativity.

New York Is The Perfect Model Of A City, Not The Model Of A Perfect City.