The Eyes Are Hammers.

An Empty Canvas, Apparently Really Empty, That Says Nothing And Is Without Significance – Almost Dull, In Fact – In Reality, Is Crammed With Thousands Of Undertone Tensions And Full Of Expectancy. Slightly Apprehensive Lest It Should Be Outraged.

There Is, However, In Art Another Kind Of External Similarity Which Is Founded On A Fundamental Truth. When There Is A Similarity Of Inner Tendency In The Whole Moral And Spiritual Atmosphere, A Similarity Of Ideals, At First Closely Pursued But Later Lost To Sight, A Similarity In The Inner Feeling Of Any One Period To That Of Another, The Logical Result Will Be A Revival Of The External Forms Which Served To Express Those Inner Feelings In An Earlier Age.

Barriers Are Continually Being Made Out Of... New Values Which Have Overturned The Barriers Of The Past. Thus One Sees That It Is Not Basically The New Value That Is Of Prime Importance, But Rather The Spirit That Is Revealed In This Value, As Well As The Freedom Necessary For This Revelation.

There Is No Must In Art Because Art Is Free.

Each Period Of A Civilisation Creates An Art That Is Specific In It And Which We Will Never See Reborn. To Try And Revive The Principles Of Art Of Past Centuries Can Lead Only To The Production Of Stillborn Works.