Two Days In This City Is Worth

The Kind Of People I Myself Represent In Parliament; Salary Earners, Shopkeepers, Skilled Artisans, Professional Men And Women, Farmers And So On, These Are, In A Political And Economic Sense, The Middle Class. They Are For The Most Part Unorganised And Unselfconscious.

It Is A Simple But Sometimes Forgotten Truth That The Greatest Enemy To Present Joy And High Hopes Is The Cultivation Of Retrospective Bitterness.

Experiment Is Necessary In Establishing An Academy, But Certain Principles Must Apply To This Business Of Art As To Any Other Business Which Affects The Artistic Tic Sense Of The Community. Great Art Speaks A Language Which Every Intelligent Person Can Understand. The People Who Call Themselves Modernists Today Speak A Different Language.

Considering The Company I Keep In This Place, That Is Hardly Surprising.

Thinking Ahead, What Really Happens To Us Will Depend On How Many People We Have Who Are Of The Great And Sober And Dynamic Middle-class - The Strivers, The Planners, The Ambitious Ones.