Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.