Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states...
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human min...
