The Least Touchable Object In The World

A Revolution Must Aim At The Destruction Of The Given Order And Will Succeed Only By Asserting An Order Of Its Own.

The Fundamental Peculiarity Of The Photographic Medium; The Physical Objects Themselves Print Their Image By Means Of The Optical And Chemical Action Of Light.

No Mature Style Of Art In Any Culture Has Ever Been Simple. In Certain Cultures, An Overall Symmetry May Conceal The Complexity Of The Work At First Glance.

It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.

Television Is A New, Hard Test Of Our Wisdom. If We Succeed In Mastering The New Medium It Will Enrich Us. But It Can Also Put Our Mind To Sleep. We Must Not Forget That In The Past The Inability To Transport Immediate Experience And To Convey It To Others Made The Use Of Language Necessary And Thus Compelled The Human Mind To Develop Concepts. For In Order To Describe Things One Must Draw The General From The Specific; One Must Select, Compare, Think. When Communication Can Be Achieved By Pointing With The Finger, However, The Mouth Grows Silent, The Writing Hand Stops, And The Mind Shrinks.