It Is The Mark Of Great Art

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.

We All Agree Now - By 'we' I Mean Intelligent People Under Sixty - That A Work Of Art Is Like A Rose. A Rose Is Not Beautiful Because It Is Like Something Else. Neither Is A Work Of Art. Roses And Works Of Art Are Beautiful In Themselves.

Civilized People Can Talk About Anything. For Them No Subject Is Taboo.... In Civilized Societies There Will Be No Intellectual Bogeys At Sight Of Which Great Grownup Babies Are Expected To Hide Their Eyes.

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

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