Radicais humanistas

"There is this to say apropos the advanced art of our time: that the critical problemas of direction and quality are not kept distinct. Because a given work has originated in the most "modern" milieu, it is supposed to be valuable ipso facto, just [as] we sometimes assume unthinkingly that because so-an-so is a radical in his politics, he must be a humanist as a man. Otherwise art and politics were only specialized games. But in practice, we can judge nothing but a man's politics from his politics."

~ Robert Motherwell, Review of Calder's Three Young Rats (1944), in "The Writings of Robert Motherwell"

Dois pontos: (1) as preferências políticas, e até as religiosas, são apenas isso e não há qualquer implicação de que sejam condições necessárias ou suficientes para que as pessoas que as tenham sejam humanistas ou sequer boas pessoas; e (2) a escrita do Robert Motherwell é orgásmica!