The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.