I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.