“There are always two parties in ‘civilization.’ There is the party which believes that the stability of property is the end and the all. There are those who believe that the aim of civilization is to keep alive the creative, the intellectually inventive-creative spirit and ability in man—and that a reasonable stability of property may be perhaps one of the many means to this end, or that it may not be detrimental, or even that it doesn't much matter. Because of this indifference to the stability of life and property on the part of one segment, this entire party is branded anarchic, or incendiary. ‘New art’ is thought dangerous, and the dangerous is branded as ‘ugly.’ Those who fear the new art also hate it.”

— Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts p. 21