Although None Of The Rules

Societies Need To Have One Illness Which Becomes Identified With Evil, And Attaches Blame To Its Victims.

Though Collecting Quotations Could Be Considered As Merely An Ironic Mimetism

Unfortunately, Moral Beauty In Art - Like Physical Beauty In A Person - Is Extremely Perishable. It Is Nowhere So Durable As Artistic Or Intellectual Beauty. Moral Beauty Has A Tendency To Decay Very Rapidly Into Sententiousness Or Untimeliness.

The Aim Of All Commentary On Art Now Should Be To Make Works Of Art - And, By Analogy, Our Own Experience - More, Rather Than Less, Real To Us. The Function Of Criticism Should Be To Show How It Is What It Is, Even That It Is What It Is, Rather Than To Show What It Means.

People Robbed Of Their Past Seem To Make The Most Fervent Picture Takers, At Home And Abroad.