He half- sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He will return to attack this morning. It is often said that war is the most exhilarating experience that an individual can have. War is many things to many people.
Art somehow captures the spirit of war better than photographs, even better than narrative.
War, with all its heroism, its valor and glory, can be captured by artists, and I've seen much of it and so have you. But artwork also is able to capture the viciousness, the vulgarity, the meanness, the horror of war like no other medium can. We've been in a lot of wars in this country and we've been fortunate that our artists have captured much of this experience that we've had in war. I think you're going to find our program today on this subject interesting and completely different. From battles between Egyptians and Nubians, to the ancient Greeks.