Art And Religion Are, Then, Two Roads

It Is The Mark Of Great Art That Its Appeal Is Universal And Eternal.............. Great Art Remains Stable And Unobscure Because The Feelings That It Awakens Are Independent Of Time And Place, Because Its Kingdom Is Not Of This World. To Those Who Have And Hold A Sense Of The Significance Of Form What Does It Matter Whether The Forms That Move Them Were Created In Paris The Day Before Yesterday Or In Babylon Fifty Centuries Ago? The Forms Of Art Are Inexhaustible; But All Lead By The Same Road Of Aesthetic Emotion To The Same World Of Aesthetic Ecstasy.

I Will Try To Account For The Degree Of My Aesthetic Emotion. That, I Conceive, Is The Function Of The Critic.

Art And Religion Are, Then, Two Roads By Which Men Escape From Circumstance To Ecstacy.

Detail Is The Heart Of Realism, And The Fatty Degeneration Of Art.

It Is Not By His Mixing And Choosing, But By The Shapes Of His Colors, And The Combination Of Those Shapes, That We Recognize The Colorist. Color Becomes Significant Only When It Becomes Form.