Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.