Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

We hardly dare trust that this is a process of transformation – that out of the ashes will rise the phoenix of humanity.