“The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.”
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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.