An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.