Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

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

Art And Religion Are, Then, Two Roads By Which Men Escape From Circumstance To Ecstasy. Between Aesthetic And Religious Rapture There Is A Family Alliance. Art And Religion Are Means To Similar States Of Mind.

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.

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

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