The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.