Do Not Mistake A Crowd Of Big

Detail Is The Heart Of Realism, And The Fatty Degeneration Of Art.

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

What Quality Is Shared By All Objects That Provoke Our Aesthetic Emotions? Only One Answer Seems Possible— Significant Form. In Each, Lines And Colors Combined In A Particular Way; Certain Forms And Relations Of Forms, Stir Our Aesthetic Emotions. These Relations And Combinations Of Lines And Colors, These Aesthetically Moving Forms, I Call ‘significant Form’; And ‘significant Form’ Is The One Quality Common To All Works Of Visual Art.

It Would Follow That 'significant Form' Was Form Behind Which We Catch A Sense Of Ultimate Reality.

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.