In The Final Analysis, Style Is Art.

False Values Begin With The Worship Of Things.

The Most Potent Elements In A Work Of Art Are, Often, Its Silences.

Art Today Is A New Kind Of Instrument, An Instrument For Modifying Consciousness And Organizing New Modes Of Sensibility . . . . Artists Have Had To Become Self-conscious Aestheticians: Continually Challenging Their Means, Their Materials And Methods.

With The Modern Diseases (once Tb, Now Cancer) The Romantic Idea That The Disease Expresses The Character Is Invariably Extended To Assert That The Character Causes The Disease -- Because It Has Not Expressed Itself. Passion Moves Inward, Striking And Blighting The Deepest Cellular Recesses.

One Cannot Use The Life To Interpret The Work. But One Can Use The Work To Interpret The Life.