Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. – Max Eastman
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. – Max Eastman
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag