“In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.” ArtArtistNaturalBattleConsequenceHatredJealousyGoodsCooperationIntriguePartisanshipCliqueNatural Consequences Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular
“A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.” WritingCountryFatherNaturalGrewBattleGrew UpAdministrationMy TimeGrandfatherSenatorsMy GrandfatherFamily HistoryPerfectly Natural Author:Gore Vidal
“Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.” MayGrowsCausesNaturalCasesMankindEffectsEventsRevolutionBattleJudgmentChecksMysteriousFormerUsualObscureInclinationFamineIntervalsPropensityMarvellousOraclesOmenProdigiesPestilence Author:David Hume