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The Circle Is The Synthesis Of The Greatest Oppositions. It Combines The Concentric And The Eccentric In A Single Form And In Equilibrium. Of The Three Primary Forms, It Points Most Clearly To The Fourth Dimension.

With Cold Eyes And Indifferent Mind The Spectators Regard The Work. Connoissers Admire The "skill" (as One Admires A Tightrope Walker), Enjoy The "quality Of Painting" (as One Enjoys A Pasty). But Hungry Souls Go Hungry Away. The Vulgar Herd Stroll Through The Rooms And Pronounce The Pictures "nice" Or "splendid." Those Who Could Speak Have Said Nothing, Those Who Could Hear Have Heard Nothing.

The Force That Propels The Human Spirit On The Clear Way Forward And Upward Is The Abstract Spirit.

There Is, However, In Art Another Kind Of External Similarity Which Is Founded On A Fundamental Truth. When There Is A Similarity Of Inner Tendency In The Whole Moral And Spiritual Atmosphere, A Similarity Of Ideals, At First Closely Pursued But Later Lost To Sight, A Similarity In The Inner Feeling Of Any One Period To That Of Another, The Logical Result Will Be A Revival Of The External Forms Which Served To Express Those Inner Feelings In An Earlier Age.

Every Work Of Art Is The Child Of Its Age And, In Many Cases, The Mother Of Our Emotions. It Follows That Each Period Of Culture Produces An Art Of Its Own Which Can Never Be Repeated.