Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.