But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.