The Starting-point For All Systems Of Aesthetics

Art And Religion Are, Then, Two Roads By Which Men Escape From Circumstance To Ecstacy.

All Sensitive People Agree That There Is A Peculiar Emotion Provoked By Works Of Art.

The Representative Element In A Work Of Art May Or May Not Be Harmful, But It Is Always Irrelevant. For To Appreciate A Work Of Art, We Must Bring With Us Nothing From Life, No Knowledge Of Its Affairs And Ideas, No Familiarity With Its Emotions.

It Is Not By His Mixing And Choosing, But By The Shapes Of His Colors, And The Combination Of Those Shapes, That We Recognize The Colorist. Color Becomes Significant Only When It Becomes Form.

Genius Worship Is The Inevitable Sign Of An Uncreative Age.