Art Is Not And Never Has Been

The Classicist, And The Naturalist Who Has Much In Common With Him, Refuse To See In The Highest Works Of Art Anything But The Exercise Of Judgement, Sensibility, And Skill. The Romanticist Cannot Be Satisfied With Such A Normal Standard; For Him Art Is Essentially Irrational - An Experience Beyond Normality, Sometimes Destructive Of Normality, And At The Very Least Evocative Of That State Of Wonder Which Is The State Of Mind Induced By The Immediately Inexplicable.

Perhaps It Is This Theory Of All Work And No Play That Has Made The Marxist Such A Very Dull Boy.

I Have Not The Slightest Doubt That This Form Of Individuation Represents A Higher Stage In The Evolution Of Mankind.

That Is Why I Believe That Art Is So Much More Significant Than Either Economics Or Philosophy. It Is The Direct Measure Of Man's Spiritual Vision.

I Can Imagine No Society Which Does Not Embody Some Method Of Arbitration.