The Thing Represented Had To Pass Through

The Revolutionary's Utopia, Which In Appearance Represents A Complete Break With The Past, Is Always Modeled On Some Image Of The Lost Paradise, Of A Legendary Golden Age... All Utopias Are Fed From The Source Of Mythology; The Social Engineers' Blueprints Are Merely Revised Editions Of The Ancient Text.

The Thing Represented Had To Pass Through Two Distorting Lenses: The Artist's Mind, And His Medium Of Expression, Before It Emerged As A Man-made Dream - The Two, Of Course, Being Intimately Connected And Interacting With Each Other.

Man Has An Irrepressible Tendency To Read Meaning Into The Buzzing Confusion Of Sights And Sounds Impinging On His Senses; And Where No Agreed Meaning Can Be Found, He Will Provide It Out Of His Own Imagination.

Space-ships And Time Machines Are No Escape From The Human Condition. Let Othello Subject Desdemona To A Lie-detector Test; His Jealousy Will Still Blind Him To The Evidence. Let Oedipus Triumph Over Gravity; He Won't Triumph Over His Fate.

It Is Impossible To Decide Whether A Particular Detail Of The Pythagorean Universe Was The Work Of The Master, Or Filled In By A Pupil A Remark Which Equally Applies To Leonardo Or Michelangelo . But There Can Be No Doubt That The Basic Features Were Conceived By A Single Mind; That Pythagoras Of Samos Was Both The Founder Of A New Religious Philosophy, And The Founder Of Science, As The Word Is Understood Today.