But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

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

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.