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

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.

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.

Comfort Came In With The Middle Classes.

Genius Worship Is The Inevitable Sign Of An Uncreative Age.