More From W. H. Auden
- "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
- "Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."
- "All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him."
More In Age
- "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."― H. L. Mencken
- "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."― Peace Pilgrim
- "In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."― Theodor Adorno