Seldom Is A Gothic Head More Beautiful

If Modern Painters Feel Qualms About Applying The Term "masterpiece" To Describe A Work Of Capital Importance, This Is Because It Has Come To Convey A Notion Of Perfection: A Notion That Leads To Much Confusion When Applied To Artists Other Than Those Who Made Perfection Their Ideal.

The Only Domain Where The Divine Is Visible Is That Of Art, Whatever Name We Choose To Call It.

Our Civilization ... Is Not Devaluing Its Awareness Of The Unknowable; Nor Is It Deifying It. It Is The First Civilization That Has Severed It From Religion And Superstition. In Order To Question It.

Culture Is The Sum Of All The Forms Of Art, Of Love, And Of Thought, Which, In The Coarse Or Centuries, Have Enabled Man To Be Less Enslaved

Some Pictures Are In The Gallery Because They Belong To Humanity And Others Because They Belong To The United States.