Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

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.

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

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.

Stand tall like a tower of God.

Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Men die but an idea does not.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.