If We Cannot Shape Our Destiny There

If We Cannot Shape Our Destiny There As No Such Thing As Witchcraft.

Just As A Musician Loves Music And Not Nightingales, And A Poet Loves Poetry And Not Sunsets, A Painter Is Not Primarily A Person Who Responds To Figures And Landscapes. He Is Primarily One Who Loves Pictures.

In The Course Of History, All Empires Have Been Created With Premeditation, By An Effort Often Sustained Over Several Generations. Every Power Has Been Roman To A Degree. The United States Is The First Nation To Become The Most Powerful In The World Without Having Sought To Be So. Its Exceptional Energy And Organization Have Never Been Oriented Toward Conquest.

In Ceasing To Subordinate Creative Power To Any Supreme Value, Modern Art Has Brought Home To Us The Presence Of That Creative Power Throughout The Whole History Of Art.

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.