Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

Do Not Mistake A Crowd Of Big Wage Earners For The Leisure Class.

Only Reason Can Convince Us Of Those Three Fundamental Truths Without A Recognition Of Which There Can Be No Effective Liberty: That What We Believe Is Not Necessarily True; That What We Like Is Not Necessarily Good; And That All Questions Are Open.

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.

Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

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