The Final Goal Of Human Effort Is

Trend Is Not Destiny.

As For The Various Kinds Of Montage Photography, They Are In Reality Not Photography At All But A Kind Of Painting In Which Photography Is Used - As Pastiches Of Textiles Are Used In Crazy-quilts - To Form A Mosaic. Whatever Value The Montage May Have Derives From Painting Rather Than The Camera.

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.

When Art Seems To Be Empty Of Meaning, As No Doubt Some Of The Abstract Painting Of Our Own Day Actually Does Seem, What The Painting Says, Indeed What The Artist Is Shrieking At The Top Of His Voice, Is That Life Has Become Empty Of All Rational Content And Coherence, And That, In Times Like These, Is Far From A Meaningless Statement.

What Was Once Called The Objective World Is A Sort Of Rorschach Ink Blot, Into Which Each Culture, Each System Of Science And Religion, Each Type Of Personality, Reads A Meaning Only Remotely Derived From The Shape And Color Of The Blot Itself