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Art In Its Widest Sense Is The Extension Of The Personality: A Host Of Artificial Limbs.

There Are A Few People, But A Diminishing Number, Who Still Believe That Marxism, As An Economic System, Off Era A Coherent Alternative To Capitalism, And Socialism Has, Indeed, Triumphed In One Country.

The Modern Artist, By Nature And Destiny, Is Always An Individualist.

It Does Not Seem That The Contradiction Which Exists Between The Aristocratic Function Of Art And The Democratic Structure Of Modern Society Can Ever Be Resolved.

The Classicist, And The Naturalist Who Has Much In Common With Him, Refuse To See In The Highest Works Of Art Anything But The Exercise Of Judgement, Sensibility, And Skill. The Romanticist Cannot Be Satisfied With Such A Normal Standard; For Him Art Is Essentially Irrational - An Experience Beyond Normality, Sometimes Destructive Of Normality, And At The Very Least Evocative Of That State Of Wonder Which Is The State Of Mind Induced By The Immediately Inexplicable.