In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First

Just As A Chemist "isolates" A Substance From Contaminations That Distort His View Of Its Nature And Effects, So The Work Of Art Purifies Significant Appearance. It Presents Abstract Themes In Their Generality, But Not Reduced To Diagrams.

The Foreign Accent Was A Promise, And Indeed, All Over The Country, European Imports Added Spice To The Sciences, The Arts, And Other Areas. What One Had To Give Was Not Considered Inferior To What One Received.

Seeing Consists Of The Grasping Of Structural Features Rather Than The Indiscriminate Recording Of Detail.

It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.

The Line That Describes The Beautiful Is Elliptical. It Has Simplicity And Constant Change. It Cannot Be Described By A Compass, And It Changes Direction At Every One Of Its Points.