19 Quotes by Daniel Bell

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

But in action, one defies one's character.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.

I prefer to do repertoire that's new for everyone.

Art is the reordering of nature – the qualities of space and time – in new perceptual and material form.