John Dewey: “The function of art has always been to break through the crust of conventionalized and routine consciousness.”

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.