Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

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.

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