when you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you (or less than nothing) I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom". You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny…
all over this so-called world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.


Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

E. E. Cummings Quotes

When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If God means ...

When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If God means ...

When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If God means ...

When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If God means ...