About Max Eastman:
Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max EastmanThe worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman