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Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
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.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo ... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions.
Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
