ART IS NOT A MIRROR to reflect the world in, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

BY RETURNING to the past . . . he purchased sufficient security, to confront the chaos of the future. — T.S. Eliot

THE NEW LANGUAGE of art is not the all embracing language of the establishment but the meta language of total negation; a negation which transcends even revolutionary action . . . Art must be beyond all establishment, even the revolutionary establishment . . . a language of opposition resistance and protest. — Herbert Marcuse

THE PRICE FOR COLLABORATION IN ART is – as in the concentration camps – excremental suffocation. It is not by submission, coolness, apathy, boredom that great art is created – no matter what the cynics tell us. The secret ingredient is what is most difficult to learn - courage. — Boris Lurie