The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.