Quotes from Glenn Adamson

Art must be of the people if it is to be art at all," wrote Starr. "It is only when a man is doing work which he wishes done, and delights in doing, and which he is free to do as he likes, that his work becomes a language to him.

complete submergence of the acquired skill in the subconscious.

The worker in handicrafts will ask himself if there are not ways by which the sense of beauty could be extended from the somewhat narrow fields of art to the broader field of human relations. And he comes to see that to ask the question is in part to answer it.

For those of Hamiltonian inclination, liberty tended to be positively defined, freedom to—the right to pursue personal entrepreneurship, and expect government support. Jefferson, who had after all drafted the Declaration of Independence, tended to emphasize a negatively defined freedom from—the right not to be interfered with, not to be tyrannized. These differences of opinion have divided American politics right down to the present day.