Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

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.

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.

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.

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.