Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.


Page 251. - The Savage God (1971)

Al Alvarez Quotes

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since...

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since...

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since...

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since...