But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.