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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams
Art, Mean, Literature
Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Henry Adams
Running, Art, Philosophy
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Henry Adams
Art, Language, American Language
1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

Henry Adams
Art, Paris, World

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