Art Is Pattern Informed By Sensibility.

This Is The Essential Distinction--even Opposition--between The Painting And The Film: The Painting Is Composed Subjectively, Thefilm Objectively. However Highly We Rate The Function Of The Scenario Writer--in Actual Practice It Is Rated Very Low--we Must Recognize That The Film Is Not Transposed Directly And Freely From The Mind By Means Of A Docile Medium Like Paint, But Must Be Cut Piece-meal Out Of The Lumbering Material Of The Actual Visible World.

In A Sense, Every Tool Is A Machine--the Hammer, The Ax, And The Chisel. And Every Machine Is A Tool. The Real Distinction Is Between One Man Using A Tool With His Hands And Producing An Object That Shows At Every Stage The Direction Of His Will And The Impression Of His Personality; And A Machine Which Is Producing, Without The Intervention Of A Particular Man, Objects Of A Uniformity And Precision That Show No Individual Variation And Have No Personal Charm. The Problem Is To Decide Whether The Objects Of Machine Production Can Possess The Essential Qualities Of Art.

Creeds And Castes, And All Forms Of Intellectual And Emotional Grouping, Belong To The Past.

But All Categories Of Art, Idealistic Or Realistic, Surrealistic Or Constructivist (a New Form Of Idealism) Must Satisfy A Simple Test (or They Are In No Sense Works Of Art): They Must Persist As Objects Of Contemplation.

The Only Sin Is Ugliness, And If We Believed This With All Our Being, All Other Activities Of The Human Spirit Could Be Left To Take Care Of Themselves.