There Must Be Some One

Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

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.

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.

Art And Religion Are, Then, Two Roads By Which Men Escape From Circumstance To Ecstacy.

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.