In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First

The Dance, Just As The Performance Of The Actor, Is Kinesthetic Art, Art Of The Muscle Sense. The Awareness Of Tension And Relaxation Within His Own Body, The Sense Of Balance That Distinguishes The Proud Stability Of The Vertical From The Risky Adventures Of Thrusting And Falling--these Are The Tools Of The Dancer.

A Revolution Must Aim At The Destruction Of The Given Order And Will Succeed Only By Asserting An Order Of Its Own.

Climbing Is A Heroic Liberating Act; And Height Spontaneously Symbolizes Things Of High Value, Be It In The Value Of Worldly Power Or Of Spirituality. To Rise In An Elevator, Balloon, Or Airplane Is To Experience Being Liberated From Weight, Sublimated, Invested With Superhuman Abilities. In Addition, To Rise From The Earth Is To Approach The Realm Of Light And Overview. Therefore The Negative Overcoming Of Weight Is At The Same Time The Positive Achievement Of Enlightenment And An Unobstructed Outlook.

Now The Work Of Art Also Represents A State Of Final Equilibrium, Of Accomplished Order And Maximum Relative Entropy, And There Are Those Who Resent It. But Art Is Not Meant To Stop The Stream Of Life. Within A Narrow Span Of Duration And Space The Work Of Art Concentrates A View Of The Human Condition; And Sometimes It Marks The Steps Of Progression, Just As A Man Climbing The Dark Stairs Of A Medieval Tower Assures Himself By The Changing Sights Glimpsed Through Its Narrow Windows That He Is Getting Somewhere After All.

The Line That Describes The Beautiful Is Elliptical. It Has Simplicity And Constant Change. It Cannot Be Described By A Compass, And It Changes Direction At Every One Of Its Points.