Art And Religion Are, Then,

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

Genius Worship Is The Inevitable Sign Of An Uncreative Age.

We Have No Other Means Of Recognising A Work Of Art Than Our Feeling For It.

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.

The Starting-point For All Systems Of Aesthetics Must Be The Personal Experience Of A Peculiar Emotion. The Objects That Provoke This Emotion We Call Works Of Art.