The Farther A Society Progresses, The More

The Peculiarity Of Sculpture Is That It Creates A Three-dimensional Object In Space. Painting May Strive To Give On A Two-dimensional Plane, The Illusion Of Space, But It Is Space Itself As A Perceived Quantity That Becomes The Peculiar Concern Of The Sculptor. We May Say That For The Painter Space Is A Luxury; For The Sculptor It Is A Necessity.

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.

There Are A Few People, But A Diminishing Number, Who Still Believe That Marxism, As An Economic System, Off Era A Coherent Alternative To Capitalism, And Socialism Has, Indeed, Triumphed In One Country.

My Own Early Experiences In War Led Me To Suspect The Value Of Discipline, Even In That Sphere Where It Is So Often Regarded As The First Essential For Success.

This Is The Essential Distinction--even Opposition--between The Painting And The Film: The Painting Is Composed Subjectively, Thefilm Objectively. However Highly We Rate The Function Of The Scenario Writer--in Actual Practice It Is Rated Very Low--we Must Recognize That The Film Is Not Transposed Directly And Freely From The Mind By Means Of A Docile Medium Like Paint, But Must Be Cut Piece-meal Out Of The Lumbering Material Of The Actual Visible World.