"It is almost as safe to assume..." - Quote by H L Mencken
It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.
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More on Art
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.”
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
More on Society
“For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”
“A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.”
“The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.”