Status Updates From Hopes and Fears for Art

“Without order your work cannot even exist; without meaning it were better not to exist.”

“(…) and it is unmanly and stupid for the children of any age to say: We will not set our hands to the work; we did not make the troubles, we will not weary ourselves seeking a remedy for them.”

“At any rate, it is good for a man who thinks seriously to face his fellows, and speak out whatever really burns in him, so that men may seem less strange to one another, and misunderstanding, the fruitful cause of aimless strife, may be avoided.”

“Sirs, I believe that art has such sympathy with cheerful freedom, open-hearted was and reality, so much she sickens under selfishness and luxury, that she will not live thus isolated and exclusive. I will go further than this and say that on such terms I do not wish for her to live.”