What Is Man? A Miserable Little Pile

The World Of Art Is Not A World Of Immortality But Of Metamorphosis.

Our Civilization ... Is Not Devaluing Its Awareness Of The Unknowable; Nor Is It Deifying It. It Is The First Civilization That Has Severed It From Religion And Superstition. In Order To Question It.

Culture Is The Sum Of All The Forms Of Art, Of Love, And Of Thought, Which, In The Coarse Or Centuries, Have Enabled Man To Be Less Enslaved

The Crucial Discovery Was Made That, In Order To Become Painting, The Universe Seen By The Artist Had To Become A Private One Created By Himself.

Here, Reality Is Not Subordinated To Painting, Indeed Painting Seems The Handmaid Of Reality, Though We Feel It Tending Towards A Procedure Which, While Not At The Mercy Of Appearances, Is Not Yet In Conflict With Them.