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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the…
• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a…
• The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…
• Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that…
• It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
• Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do…
• The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion…
• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the…
• Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
• I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
• All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is…

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