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
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, The Clock is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz