Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Continued experiment with dog today.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.