I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
But in action, one defies one's character.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.