“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.” HumansArtArtistValuesImaginationImpossibleHappenedSubjectsArt IsPoliceTerrorDespiteConcentrationCampsHuman ValuesConcentration Camp Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.” MayArtSeemsValuesBeliefAbilityVirtueCenturyPossibilityTwentieth CenturyCoherenceUncontrollable Author:Al Alvarez
