5 quotes
Art is the great and universal refreshment. For Art is never dogmatic; holds no brief for itself; you may take it, or you may leave it.
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
He is but a poor philosopher who holds a view so narrow as to exclude forms not to his personal taste.
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion.
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
Slowly, under our feet, beneath our consciousness, is forming that new philosophy, and it is in times of new philosophies that Art, itself in essence always a discovery, must flourish.
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
Truth admits but the one rule: No deficiency, and no excess! Disobedient to that rule — nothing attains full vitality. And secretly fettered by that rule is Art, whose business is the creation of vital things.
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)