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Art Is Not And Never Has Been Subordinate To Moral Values. Moral Values Are Social Values; Aesthetic Values Are Human Values. Morality Seeks To Restrain The Feelings; Art Seeks To Define Them By Externalizing Them, By Giving Them Significant Form. Morality Has Only One Aim - The Ideal Good; Art Has Quite Another Aim - The Objective Truth... Art Never Changes.

The Work Of Art... Is An Instrument For Tilling The Human Psyche, That It May Continue To Yield A Harvest Of Vital Beauty.

The Worth Of A Civilization Or A Culture Is Not Valued In The Terms Of Its Material Wealth Or Military Power, But By The Quality And Achievements Of Its Representative Individuals - Its Philosophers, Its Poets And Its Artists.

Art Is Always The Index Of Social Vitality, The Moving Finger That Records The Destiny Of A Civilization. A Wise Statesman Should Keep An Anxious Eye On This Graph, For It Is More Significant Than A Decline In Exports Or A Fall In The Value Of A Nation's Currency.

The Depths Modern Art Has Been Exploring Are Mysterious Depths, Full Of Strange Fish.