But All Categories Of Art, Idealistic Or

An Enormous Amount Of Art And Literature Is Erotic In The Sense That It Stimulates Vague Sexual Emotions, But It Has No Pornographic Intention Or Effect Because "it Leaves Everything To The Imagination." The Consumer Has To Invent His Own Images, And It Is Felt, I Do Not Know With What Justification, That There Is No Harm In This.

In A Sense, Every Tool Is A Machine--the Hammer, The Ax, And The Chisel. And Every Machine Is A Tool. The Real Distinction Is Between One Man Using A Tool With His Hands And Producing An Object That Shows At Every Stage The Direction Of His Will And The Impression Of His Personality; And A Machine Which Is Producing, Without The Intervention Of A Particular Man, Objects Of A Uniformity And Precision That Show No Individual Variation And Have No Personal Charm. The Problem Is To Decide Whether The Objects Of Machine Production Can Possess The Essential Qualities Of Art.

Morality, As Has Often Been Pointed Out, Is Antecedent To Religion-it Even Exists In A Rudimentary Form Among Animals.

The Depths Modern Art Has Been Exploring Are Mysterious Depths, Full Of Strange Fish.

I Know Of No Better Name Than Anarchism.