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

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

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.

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

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.