His long struggle with physical passion was almost over, and, as with many other great sensualists, its place had been taken by an obsession with death.
Ch. VI: Pathos - The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1951)
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... Advanced art today is no longer a cause – it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
