A Great Philosopher In The Wrong Is

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.

The Love Of Americans For Their Country Is Not An Indulgent, It Is An Exacting And Chastising Love; They Cannot Tolerate Its Defects.

The Only Artist Who Does Not Deserve Respect Is The One Who Works To Please The Public, For Commercial Success Or For Official Success.

The Philosopher Says That God's Knowledge Is The Measure Of Things, And That Things Are The Measure Of Man's Knowledge.

The Division Between The Useful Arts And The Fine Arts Must Not Be Understood In Too Absolute A Manner. In The Humblest Work Of The Craftsmen, If Art Is There, There Is A Concern For Beauty, Through A Kind Of Indirect Repercussion That The Requirements Of The Creativity Of The Spirit Exercise Upon The Production Of An Object To Serve Human Needs.