Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.