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Contemporary artists, writers, and poets who violently reject the old forms and denigrate the great names of the past, who find wisdom and beauty and genius only in their own times (and even then only in their own particular coteries and partisan movements), are merely trying to be different, and to be themselves. That is, whatever their physical age may be, this is really one part of their general attempt to assert their freedom from adolescence. They are emotionally young and intellectually immature persons who lack the experience and balance to form sound judgements.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 216