“Yet why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality. Not of course our awareness of our potentiality as artists ourselves. But a way of looking at the world implies a certain relationship with the world, and every relationship implies action. The kind of actions implied vary a great deal. … A work of art can, to some extent, increase an awareness of different potentialities in different people. The important point is that a valid work of art promises in some way or another the possibility of an increase, an improvement. Nor need the word be optimistic to achieve this; indeed, its subject may be tragic. For it is not the subject that makes the promise, it is the artist's way of viewing his subject. Goya's way of looking at a massacre amounts to the contention that we ought to be able to do without massacres.”

"Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism", p. 251
Ever Since Darwin (1977)

Source: What You're Really Meant To Do, 2013, p. 11

Source: Gunmetal Magic

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

The Coming Victory of Democracy (1938), p. 14, translated by Agnes E. Meyer, Knopf (1938)

Source: To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

quote from an interview in 'A Paris painter', H. Hapgood; in 'Globe and commercial Advertiser', 20 February 1913, p. 8 / 10
1910's

Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008)