I Admired Anyone Who Could Unsettle People.

When The Modern Movement Began, Starting Perhaps With The Paintings Of Manet And The Poetry Of Baudelaire And Rimbaud, What Distinguished The Modern Movement Was The Enormous Honesty That Writers, Painters And Playwrights Displayed About Themselves. The Bourgeois Novel Flinches From Such Notions.

Any Fool Can Write A Novel But It Takes Real Genius To Sell It.

Elaborate Burial Customs Are A Sure Sign Of Decadence.

The Surrealists, And The Modern Movement In Painting As A Whole, Seemed To Offer A Key To The Strange Postwar World With Its Threat Of Nuclear War. The Dislocations And Ambiguities, In Cubism And Abstract Art As Well As The Surrealists, Reminded Me Of My Childhood In Shanghai.

The Functional Freedom That Anybody Can Buy A Gun And Go Out And Murder A Lot Of People At A Mcdonald's Is Prevalent, Yes. But Through The Effects Of Tv And Interactive Video Systems And So Forth, We'll Also Have The Freedom To Pretend To Be A Mass Murderer For The Evening. I've Seen Descriptions Of Advanced Tv Systems In Which A Simulation Of Reality Is Computer Controlledthe Tv Viewer Of The Future Will Wear A Special Helmet. You'll No Longer Be An External Spectator To fiction Created By Others, But An Active Participant In Your Own Fantasies/dramas.